Today I'd like to focus on CloudHQ - a service I have found indispensable in keeping all cloud services connected.
I was a fervent user of Evernote and paid for premium, until recently they upped the price from $45 (US) to $89 (Canadian). I thought of downgrading to Evernote Basic, but then there is new two device limit, which makes Evernote useless to me because I always have a few phones (perks of being a tester) and tablets around.
So, at that point I decided to search for other alternatives. After much research, I decided to settle on Google Docs... which posed an immediate problem. How was I going to get my 1700 notes across to Google Drive? Many contain PDF attachments, images or web clippings. I almost thought I had to give up on the idea... until I suddenly remembered CloudHQ.
In fact, CloudHQ is the only service (that I found) that seems able to do the trick: convert my Evernote files to Google Drive!
Time to put this to the test. Once you log into your account, you are invited to start the cloudHQ setup:
Following the wizard is as easy as click through - in my case, I wanted a single user set up:
To sync two cloud services.
After picking the two I needed (Evernote to Google Drive), the notebooks/stacks I want to transfer and changing to one way sync (I don't need to sync back), this screen pops up.
The only change I made is instead of having all my notes as PDF, I chose to convert them to Google Docs format.
And, that was all. Right away, I got the confirmation that sync was running okay:
After a few hours, all my notes were in Google drive, without a hitch... in the Evernote folder which I had created - Evernote's notebook stacks as main folders:
Individual notebooks as subfolders within the main folder:
And all my notes, PDF attachments and web clippings neatly within that folder.
I can't believe what an easy process it was to convert my entire Evernote collection - thanks to CloudHQ!
P.S. I just learned about their new chrome extension which enables Gmail users to share gmail labels and collaborate with other uses. Might be worth checking it out!
I was a fervent user of Evernote and paid for premium, until recently they upped the price from $45 (US) to $89 (Canadian). I thought of downgrading to Evernote Basic, but then there is new two device limit, which makes Evernote useless to me because I always have a few phones (perks of being a tester) and tablets around.
So, at that point I decided to search for other alternatives. After much research, I decided to settle on Google Docs... which posed an immediate problem. How was I going to get my 1700 notes across to Google Drive? Many contain PDF attachments, images or web clippings. I almost thought I had to give up on the idea... until I suddenly remembered CloudHQ.
In fact, CloudHQ is the only service (that I found) that seems able to do the trick: convert my Evernote files to Google Drive!
Time to put this to the test. Once you log into your account, you are invited to start the cloudHQ setup:
Following the wizard is as easy as click through - in my case, I wanted a single user set up:
To sync two cloud services.
After picking the two I needed (Evernote to Google Drive), the notebooks/stacks I want to transfer and changing to one way sync (I don't need to sync back), this screen pops up.
The only change I made is instead of having all my notes as PDF, I chose to convert them to Google Docs format.
And, that was all. Right away, I got the confirmation that sync was running okay:
Individual notebooks as subfolders within the main folder:
And all my notes, PDF attachments and web clippings neatly within that folder.
I can't believe what an easy process it was to convert my entire Evernote collection - thanks to CloudHQ!
P.S. I just learned about their new chrome extension which enables Gmail users to share gmail labels and collaborate with other uses. Might be worth checking it out!