Google Docs

Bring a draft you started in Google Docs into a project. Each Doc becomes a document of its own, with its headings, lists and tables, ready to edit and for the model to read.

Import from Drive

1. Right-click the project, or the folder to put the Docs in, and choose Import › Google Drive….
2. Google’s sign-in opens in a window of its own (in the desktop app, in your usual browser). Choose your Google account and allow inksprite to see the files you choose.
3. Google’s file picker opens. Choose the Docs or other files to import; you can choose several at once.

inksprite puts them in the folder, and a message says how many it imported and names any it couldn’t. In the desktop app, the browser tab says you can close it and go back to inksprite.

Google asks you to sign in and allow access each time you import. inksprite can open only the files you choose, and forgets the sign-in once the import is done.

Tip

If your browser blocks Google’s window, inksprite says so. Click Try again. If you close Google’s window without choosing anything, click Cancel in inksprite.

Google’s picker lets you open folders to find files, but choose the files themselves: a folder chosen whole is skipped.

What comes across

• Google Docs and Word files (.docx) become text documents, in Markdown: headings, lists, bold and italic, links and tables. Pictures are left out, and the message says how many.
• Google Sheets come as a CSV file of the first sheet.
• Google Slides come as a PDF, and Google Drawings as a PNG image.
• Other files, such as PDFs, images and Markdown files, import as they would from your computer. See PDFs, Images, and Ebooks.
• Forms, Sites and other Google files that can’t be exported are skipped, and so is a Doc over Drive’s 10 MB export limit.

Files on shared drives import too.

It’s a copy

An imported Doc is a copy of the Doc as it was. Edits in inksprite stay in inksprite, and edits in Google Docs stay there. To bring in a newer version, import the Doc again: it arrives beside the first as Name (2).

Note

Google Drive… is on the menu at inksprite.io and in the desktop app. A copy of inksprite you run yourself has it only if it’s set up with a Google project of its own.