When you press the sync button on the Notes page, it will lead you to a 3-paged/tabbed sync page (called Google Notes Sync). Here you can load the notes saved locally (left tab), those saved on google (right tab). The middle tab is used for merging - process of defining what notes have been changed on either side and what should be done with that.
On Google tasks notes are saved under the list 'Notes'. All the tasks under this list accounted as notes. When you press Load on the Google tab on the Google Notes Sync, these notes will be loaded to the tab. You can view any particular note on any tab - click on an item in the list and it will lead you to the Note page.
After loading the google notes (if they exist), you can run the merge - the program will step through all the notes and try to find out which of the notes have been changed.
A note might be in any of the several states: local new - new note on the device, not synced to the google. The action for such note might be - to sync it with google (i.e., copy it there), do nothing or delete it. Similarly, a note might be a new one coming from google. Same set of actions can be used for such note.
A note may be modified after being synced previously. For example, modified on google. In this case you can copy updated note from google to local storage, restore google note with the local version, or do nothing :).
Convenience filters on the top of the page: you can view only those notes that have been changed in any form - press the Updated text button. You can view only those In sync. Or, you can see them All.
Finally, a note may be modified both locally and on web. The app doesn't try to be too smart, so it doesn't really do the merge or anything. It just sygnals you the situation and let's you take the action.
Pressing on the Apply button will do the sync operation - save new local notes to google, update local storage with new items from google.
When I press load to sync a note from my Blaze to Google, nothing happens. The Apply button does not function. I have used a cut and paste operation to save a critical note, but until the sync operation is clear to me, I'm not putting anything critical into the notes. I have a Google account, but notes seem to be available only as an attachment to an email. Likewise Tasks seem to only be available as email conversions. Cumbersome. The ability to sync to other applications would be nice.
ReplyDeleteHi John,
DeleteAre your notes under list called 'Notes' in your Google tasks? This is important, because elements in Google tasks are Lists and Tasks, while we have Mission, Concerns, Notes, Actions. We can't do a one-to-one mapping. Likewise, the app looks under the list called 'My Influence' and tasks called 'Concerns' and 'Influences' for items which it regards as concerns from the app.
As regards the Tasks part (Roles/Goals/Actions) - they are not yet implemented to be synced with google tasks.
If you have questions, would be happy to help.
Wish you had an option that would tell the program NOT synch to Google at all, ever. I looked for a setting like this that would affect the whole program, but found none. :-(
ReplyDeleteI don't want to share my details with Google, so I guess my only option is to uninstall the program. So that's what I plan to do, but I'm sad about that.
No need to delete.
Delete1. The sharing is fully manual - if you want, you share. If you don't, you don't - this is our plan, to keep it under control of users.
2. It's not even finished :)
So, enjoy the app and become more productive!
Thanks for this! Is it possible to load my google tasks as actions?
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