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Text Editor for Drive

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How to install Open in Chrome Web Store
CRX ID
ekfbccelhcfmchcllmddmeomlgojoghb
Status
  • Live on Store
Description from extension meta

A powerful and lightweight Text editor, extractor for Google Drive. It allow you to edit the Text file, Extract text from file.

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Text Editor for Drive
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A powerful and lightweight Text editor, extractor for Google Drive.
This app allows you to edit the Text file, Extract plain text and mail attachments from a binary(msg, winmail.dat, pdf) file.

You can choose a text file to edit from Google Drive. Provides connect with Google Drive.
You can easily view or edit your text file, you can also use it as e-book reader to open txt novel. html, javascript, css... syntax highlighting, Vim editor mode support.

*Extract text from the binary file. Google Drive and Local Computer. Document to Text.
Supported formats:
pdf,doc,dot,docx,docm,dotx,dotm
xls,xlw,xla,xlt,xlsx,xlsm,xltx,xltm,xlsb
ppt,ppa,ppsx,ppsm,pps,pot,pptx,pptm
potx,potm,odt,ods,odp,fodt,ott,fodp,otp
fods,ots,rtf,ps(Postscript)
epub(eBook),mobi(eBook),chm(HTML Help),hlp,fb2,tex,latex,mht,mhtml,hwp,Apple iWorks(pages,key)
msg(outlook, attachments),winmail.dat(TNEF format, attachments),pdf(attachments)
ics,ical,ifb,icalendar(iCalendar format to tsv) webarchive(extractor)
lnk(Windows lnk) DS_Store,DSStore(.DS_Store format)
dbf(dBase/dbf to csv, dbf to txt) fp3,fp5(Filemaker DB to txt) fdb(Firebird DB to csv, version 2.5 or lower)
wk4,123(Lotus wk4/123 to csv) vcf(VCard to csv)
smi,vtt,sbv,sub,stl(Subtitles to srt format, sbv: YouTube Subtitle, sub: SubViewer, stl: DVD Studio Pro)
srt(srt subtitle to web VTT format)
htm,html (optional)

Latest reviews

Grzegorz Kurek
Works ok, but beware it's STILL not safe, even few years has passed. It uses http instead of https, so remember not to type anything sensitive using this app.
Ahmed Azhad
Good lightweight text editor. Only issue I face is that files saved by the app cannot be previewed in Drive. Anyway to fix that?
Bertus van Heusden
No save prompt is a deal breaker. Please ping me when there is an option to get this or an autosave. And no https? These are weird and regrettable failures, making all the interesting features void.
Aiva Light
Even cannot log in!
Kannika KONG
well done. this is a very basic tool for text editor like notepad. you're free do anything.
George Tachlampouris
No Greek !!!
Alexei Gorbatov
window can not be resized. It opens tiny window with ads on both size. Practically you use 60% of your display.
Peter Gilbert
Could not get it to work, and not a safe website. Am trying to uninstall it.
Thorsten Hitzemann
Could you add support for Umlaute, please? They appear as question marks.
Brandon Fowler
This is the only text editor / notepad for Google Drive. The only downsides are the small size of the editing window and how it's defined in px rather than percent or em.
Thomas Weeks
OKay.. but don't edit certain file types. Also does not handle Linux/Win LF vs CRLFs well.. no contextual code coloring, column position, etc.
L34T
No httpS? Seriously?
Jonathan Prough
does not work cannot login. why are all the google apps so bad.
John Blackledge
"Are you sure?" can be disabled in the Options. But it really needs an auto-save.
Hermann Schachner
Exactly what I needed, thanks. I appreciate very much that it even supports VIM key-bindings.
Evangelos Rozos
THE text editor of GDrive.
mvveiga
Good and simple editor.
Sezione Controlli di Sicurezza
Bloatware full of ads ....
Mark Worthen
PRO: (a) Works well as a text editor integrated with Google Drive. (b) Has many potentially helpful options. CON: (1) Not a secure website, i.e., their site, and therefore the app, is not encrypted--it is not using Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). Don't type anything private or confidential when using this app! (2) No automatic save. Don't forget to SAVE!
Ivan
excelent! Perfect for editing simple .txt files. Thanks!
John 23
Works just fine for me, but would really like the option of an auto-save to keep it in the style of Google Docs. Also, why is there not a mobile version? For those who asked: you _can_ untick the 'Are You Sure' save option in the Settings panel, then thereafter just click on [Save].
Jędrzej
It would be nice if it could open files like .cpp etc straight from the drive.
Jack Seefeldt
Works pretty well as a basic text editor. I don't use it for code so can't comment on the code-specific features. Main irritation is the completely unnecessary "Are you sure?" prompt to save a document, while closing the app's tab or window just blows away your work without a prompt or a chance to recover. Isn't this backwards from the way it should work? UPDATE: Also problematic is the periodic app request to reauthorize access to Google Drive, whose settings show it already authorized. Worse, clicking the Login and Authorize button fails, with no way to intervene and fix whatever has gone wrong. That's pretty annoying.
Danial Movahed
bad because not working
Lennard Kowalik (Len)
This editor is the best that I have found yet, but STILL LOOKING. I am looking for a text editor that allows voice input and printing. Voice input is not converted to text. I am using SpeechNotesX Voice-Typing on a Chromebook. Printing is a two-step process, in which it opens up a separate Tab to print from, but at least that is better than others I have tried. I would agree that losing your text when closing a tab is a big disappointment.
sanay thar
good
mininxd
Not connected with my txt document
Joaquín Mura
Not working for simple text files
Omer Agranov
google told me the app wasn't safe so i had to remove it :(
Mariela Atausinchi
legal
Suryoday
good
Menamosa Olarnnmas
the note is so good drive vs text
Bo Siltberg
Close, but it insists on saving the file in UTF-8 format and not the format I specify. Pity, it was very close to useful...
sayful sky
Good Soft
Shwetali Mayekar
I could open my outlook files, without installing outlook on my laptop.
Ahmed Sabbir
5 stars
Grant Currin
Where is it ?
Abhilash V R
One big problem is that it does not ask whether I want to save my edits when I close the tab without saving. This is a deal-breaker for me.
David Reed
Total ad infested rubbish deleted after 10 mins
Dinh Hung
nice
gillis
Too many ads. needs special login. probably just spam
S
fast, lightweigth
tie jeeb
yee
Eric Schultz
Meh. Very basic, tries to be more than what it can actually be. If it concentrated on just being a nice clean simple notepad it would be perfect. But it makes a half-hearted attempted to be much more. Too bad, I really want notepad.exe for Google Drive!!!
ega awoo
simple but powerfull
Péter TARJÁN
Doesn't open txt properly, especially problems at special characters.
Travis Warlick
Ads on both sides of the application. Can't trust this for anything that's remotely private.
John Rizzo
Full of ads
Brian Barnes
Always pesters you with 'Do you really, really want to save this document' prompt. Can't turn it off. Needs Save means SAVE_IT_DAMIT! option. Hit the "Visit Website" button to ask the developer. It opened a blank document. Great way to prevent being pestered for tech support. Looking for another simple text editor
Dramma Oficial
OK!