This may be kind of out in left field, but I’m envisioning a sort of Search Portal that searches an external site or document and displays results in RemNote. Here are a few use cases:
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It would be nice so search materials that I have in Google docs within RemNote. One example might be a particular Google Doc that is a writing project. The paper itself, including the footnotes, is something that I’d like in RemNote, but it needs to be formatted and/or shared as a traditional document. Another example is my 2021 taxes spreadsheet. Most of my tax notes are in an appropriate RemNote folder with a link to the spreadsheet, but some notes are on the spreadsheet itself and I don’t want to take the trouble to copy them over into RemNote.
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I manage several websites on different domains, which also contain some things that I’d like in RemNote. For example, there are resources that I’d like searchable, some blog entries, etc. Again, I can link them easily enough, but they aren’t a searchable part of my knowledgebase.
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My final use case is my old knowledgebase on several Google sites. I have been gradually transferring information from there into RemNote (or just linking it in some cases of old projects). But here again, at least provisionally, it would be nice to include them in my RemNote knowledgebase.
The RemNote clipper does make it easy to manually abstract linked material (and the new PDF tools, but I haven’t looked at those much yet). Further, it is easy to make the case that a Google search is not a useful knowledgebase, and that extending search leaves off key features or RemNote (references, tags, etc.). However, with my own material I’ve already created or curated it could extend my knowledgebase in a useful way.
Does this make sense with RemNote philosophy and structure? Is it feasible? Apologies if this is covered elsewhere in the forum (I didn’t see it). I’d love to hear more tips and tricks for dealing with material outside of RemNote that one would like to have inside RemNote (I recall another post that suggested something similar for files on one’s hard drive).