Google Docs

Why Google Docs is optimal for blogging

Google Docs is a nice alternative to Obsidian for my markdown posts. But it requires some extra work.
tinoSwe
Jan 18, 2023

After thinking overnight I found a new way for writing my posts.

What I want to do

Ideally I would like to be able to post from anywhere, mobile included. Who doesn’t want that after all? As a big lover of Google tools my mind quickly turned to Google Docs for achieving this.

From Google Doc to markdown

Jekyll automatically processes markdown posts in GitHub. So… I need to convert a Google Doc to markdown first and push it to GitHub afterwards. It turns out that Google Apps Scripts allow me to implement my own conversion.

Exploring Google Apps Scripts

I am now into exploring the Google Apps Scripts infrastrucutre to customize and extend Google Docs menus with my own markdown converter. A GitHub action will then allow me to automatically push the markdown

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