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đź“‘ Why Google Docs over any other publishing tools?

2024

I prefer making notes in Google Doc rather than in markdown or any other software like notion, medium, substack, wordpress blog, blogger.com (from Google), etc because I am very much satified by the features provided by Google Doc and I am already very well familiar with Google Doc (WYSIWYG = “What You See Is What You Get”).

How is Google Docs helpful?

  1. Notes are about more about note making than to refer to them later notes, though the latter important but not more than the former. In Google Docs the experience of notes making is awesome.
  2. Ability to give people exclusive acces using email like read or write permissions.
  3. Can be published to web via direct link using “Publish to web” feature. You can find it here “File > Share feature > Publish to web”.
  4. Can be embedded in websites, this is particularly useful when you want some content to be automatically updated in your website which is present in a Google document. This could be really helpful thing particularly for non coders. You can get the embed code for the document by going to “File > Share feature > Embed”. Here is an example which you can check and you can actually view the source code of the html page via option + cmd + u (macos) or ctrl + u (on mac/linux).
  5. Faster editing process than markdown because you need an editor for editing markdown and there isn’t any platform I have where I can do it for free.
  6. Better editing experience than markdown. (WYSIWYG = “What You See Is What You Get”)
  7. There is syntax language to be learned if you use markdown.
  8. A Google Doc is editable on Google Doc with awesome experience.

🚀 If still you want to use markdown — prefer these tools as they help to edit markdown with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) way:

  1. Obsidian
    1. USAGE: From the top bar in your macOS and go to File > Open Vault… and then from Obsidian welcome popup you can choose Open folder as vault and select your desired folder to open it.
    2. TIP: Please add .obsidian to your .gitignore file of the project so obsidian files are ignored.
  2. Typora
  3. VS Code’s Edit with live preview: [NOTE: This is very buggy experience as of now 28 May 2025.]
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