Getting Polaris Office to talk to S Note

[yardcoyote]

This is sort of related to my other question about word processing in general, but now I have a specific issue involving .txt files to ask about. This is an outline of what I have learned so far:

S Note can save my notes including ones made using handwriting recognition, using "share via", as. txts. I can share these .txts with S Note itself, and they are saved in the "lifestyle" folder in S Note's own storage area.

Polaris Office can create .txts when I choose "text only" as my save option. Polaris can then read those .txts, which are saved as "recent documents" on Polaris's home screen (if that's the right word for it).

S Note can make .txts. Polaris can read .txts. I should be able to open my S Note.txts in Polaris, save them as Polaris documents in either .txt or .doc, edit them, add to them, and incorporate them into larger documents. Shouldn't I? Any advice is very much welcome. I am flying blind here.

 

[friedtators]

yes, it seems you have made the points yourself. i have never added docs to make larger ones so not sure on that

 

[yardcoyote]

But *how* do I open a saved .txt S Note with Polaris Office? Is that even possible? I can use Polaris' Browser feature to find the note I am looking for, but when I click on it all it does is open it in S Note. I need to get the text out of the note and into a blank Polaris document so I can work with it.

Do I have to cut and paste? If so, how do I cut and paste from one piece of software to another?

 

[Jay Evans]

But *how* do I open a saved .txt S Note with Polaris Office?

Set Polaris to allow access to your Google Drive. Share the file as a .txt to GD. Open Office. Access your GD with PO and open .txt file.

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[yardcoyote]

Thank you very much for the advice. I don't have a Google Drive yet, since this is my first Android device, but I'm not opposed to the idea. But if the cloud is the answer, then there's no reason why I can't use my Dropbox instead, right?

Just one more question and I think we can declare this problem solved. I've already uploaded my sample S note .txt file to my Dropbox, but when I went to go get it from Polaris Office, I got a dialog box asking me to choose between Android package installer and Google verify and install. Which one should I use?

 

[Jay Evans]

Dropbox will work exactly the same way. Can't remember which installer I used but I think it was Package Installer.

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[yardcoyote]

This is extremely frustrating. I set up Polaris Office to play nicely with Dropbox, but when I tried to open my .txt sample , saved from S note as a .txt using "share via", it told me "this file format is not supported". Seriously, what is going on, here? Polaris can successfully open a sample .txt I created on Polaris and uploaded to Dropbox, but the one I made on S note is somehow an unknown.

Can anyone who has both Polaris Office and S note running on their Note 8.0 and is also a Dropbox user reproduce this problem? Will the situation be different if I invest the time and effort to set up a Google Drive account, when all I really want to do is open a .txt I make in S note in some kind of word processor?

Thanks.

 

[Jay Evans]

Don't know what you are doing wrong but I just tested it twice again and it works perfectly as I described.

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[yardcoyote]

With Google Drive or with Dropbox? If it's a matter of setting up a Google Drive to get this to work, I'm perfectly willing to do so-- I just figured I would use Dropbox if I could, since I am already familiar with it.

 

[Vudumedic]

With Google Drive or with Dropbox? If it's a matter of setting up a Google Drive to get this to work, I'm perfectly willing to do so-- I just figured I would use Dropbox if I could, since I am already familiar with it.

You have a drive account it is included in all Google services so if you have a Gmail address you have a drive account. You can set it to access it by signing in and using your Gmail password. As far as the issue with trying to open txt files in Polaris Office try clearing your defaults in the Settings menu. You may have at some point set txt to be associated with SNote only. So go to Settings Programs hit menu and clear the defaults.

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[yardcoyote]

Yes, I'm definitely going to set up that Google Drive next chance I get. I am intrigued by the thought that there is something going on with my settings-- it's just that kind of weird problem. But I'm stuck trying to find out the right settings menu-- my main Settings menu, under the blue gear-shaped icon on my tablet's desktop/home screen, offers me Wireless +Network, Device, Personal, Accounts, and System as options. I scrolled through the whole thing, and read the appropriate section of the manual, and am unsure where to find precise settings for individual programs.

 

[Jay Evans]

With Google Drive or with Dropbox?

Both without a problem... Are you sure you're saving it with the .txt extension? When I hit a txt file in Dropbox, this is what i get. All the apps that can open a .txt file.

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[yardcoyote]

Problem solved. I was not saving the files correctly--a quirk in the way I was renaming them for Dropbox resulted in an extra space between the "dot" and the "t" in .txt. And that's a file extension *nobody* can read. I'm not entirely sure what exactly I was doing wrong, but I've figured out how to stop doing it and that's all that matters. Things are moving smoothly now.

Thanks, wholehearted and very sincere thanks, for all the hand holding and help I was offered by everyone on this thread, especially Jay Evans who really went above and beyond. Solving this problem was essential to getting full use out of this amazing little tablet, and I am greatly relieved.

 

[Jay Evans]

Your keyboard defult is set to insert a space after a period. So .txt becomes . txt

Great for sentences, sucks for file extensions. ;-)

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[yardcoyote]

That'd be it. I figured it was something like that. Luckily, all you have to do when renaming is type your filename right over "myfile"-- Dropbox takes care of the file extension for you and seems to get it right every time. Good for it, that's what I say.

Thanks again, seriously.

(I'm on my desktop again, and am starting to get seriously annoyed that it doesn't suggest words for me. I have to type the whole word, every time. What's the deal with that?)