Google Docs & Google Drive

Google Docs & Google Drive

Today I worked on a project trying to understand the relationship between Google Docs and Google Drive.

Here's the way I see it.

• Google Docs is an application where you can create and save documents.
• Google Drive is where files created in the various Google applications are stored.

Files stored in Google Drive count against your allocated "free" storage.

Creating folders in Google Drive can be a big help later on when you need to find a file. There are several ways to create folders and to move files into folders.

If you also use Google Sites you can create a special folder in Google Drive that will be accessible in Google Sites. That is to say, files stored in the special folder can be viewed via Google Sites in a Folder page that you create on Google Sites.

Dick Henthorn

15 Mar 2017

Honesty

Leadership -- of the family, an organization, our society, or even the nation -- erodes and eventually falls apart without honesty and integrity. Honesty is the keystone that holds any organization together.
(Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand A Little Taller, 16 September)

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I used the Chrome browser.  On the left side of the bookmark toolbar I have a button labeled Access I use this to store links to applications that I frequently use such as my blogs, Facebook, MS OneDrive, my Wiki and my Google Sites webpages.  I let the list get rather long. When I took a closer look I discovered that some of the folders included links to applications that were also included as standalone links.  Yesterday I created several new folders, moved bookmarks into the appropriate folders and deleted any duplication from each folder. The Access button should work better after the housekeeping.

Dick Henthorn

3 April 2015

Influences

Melva's practice photo with my camera

It's easy to be affected by outside influences.
Let's pay more attention to what really matters when making choices.
(The Christophers, Three Minutes A Day, Vol. 44, 12 January)

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I spent time this morning creating folders in my Downloads folder. Then I moved photos and music to the appropriate "new" folders.  I should do this more often. It's an easy way to quickly group "sets" of files together. I also remembered to "tag" the photos I downloaded this morning. Organization is work that pays dividends later.

Mr. Dickie
18 March 2015

What You Think

What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your own life. Whether the subject of your thought be good or bad, the law works and the condition grows. Any subject that you keep out of your mind tends to diminish in your life, because what you do not use atrophies.
(Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox found in Since Strangling Isn't An Option by Sandra A. Crowe, p. 163)

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On the 26th and 27th of February I worked on a project to create playlist folders for various artists on Spotify.  Many of my favorite Bluegrass artists have 14 or 15 albums on this music service. 

Consolidating the albums into playlist folders on the left of the display will make it easier to quickly find something I want to play.  I learned that if I click on the playlist folder all of the albums are aggregated into one big temporary playlist for immediate play.

While working on this project I discovered that an application upgrade to Spotify eliminated the feature that allowed us to post a song to the wall of our Facebook friends.  I can still easily post a song to my own wall where all of my friends can see it.

Mr. Dickie

1 March 2014

Blessings

Today be thankful for your blessings and share with those not so well-blessed.  Be grateful for your talents.  Use some degree of those talents to help those in need.  (Helen Steiner Rice, From The Heart, 19 November)

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I'm working on a project to organize photographs stored on a 4Gb thumb drive.  My goal is to make it easier to find the photos I want.  I'm creating new folders with more meaningful names.  Then I'm moving the photos into the new folders.

The three of us celebrated Thanksgiving a day early.  Yesterday we went to eat lunch at Pirate's Cove in Galesville, MD on the West River, south of Annapolis and about thirty miles from our house .  We had crab soup and crab for the main course too.  We arrived when they opened which allowed us to enjoy our time together without children or much noise from others talking.

Mr. Dickie

24 November 2011