TODO

• @write this up into a proper blog post

Procedure

Making rclone config safe to store in repo

• rclone config was inside the encfs store, but it looks like rclone offers it's own encryption
• we can store .rclone.conf directly inside dotfiles repo

Now we can… this shows us .docx files

rclone ls gdrive:folder/

Convert docx to markdown

Pipe into pandoc and we we see markdown!

rclone cat sachin.rudraraju:znotebook/Roadmap.docx | pandoc --from docx --to markdown | less

Convert markdown to docx

We can generate docx from markdown and reupload back to google docs

pandoc test.md --reference-doc ~/Downloads/custom-reference.docx -o test.docx

Create wrapper script to automate for each file

• for each file in sync folder
  • created sync-settings.yaml with user friendly format
  • stash local changes
  • copy file from google drive and convert to markdown
  • pop local changes
  • create docx file and copy to google drive

Issues

• for some reason, can't edit the --reference-doc in Google Docs, might need to edit it in Word directly according to following
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70513062/how-do-i-add-custom-formatting-to-docx-files-generated-in-pandoc
• keep default formatting for now