I actually settled on this helper app: Alfred, with a Google Drive workflow. I don't disagree this shouldn't be necessary, but as a working solution for me as an individual I've been pretty happy with it: https://www.alfredapp.com/blog/guides-and-tut...

I just set it up a few weeks ago based on this post and it's great. BTW, I just mapped a key sequence that prefixes the 'gd'.

Works! I agree w/ KeepCold about the matter, but what a relief not to have to add another app/service to store my data. Here's to forums!

It's building an index now...fingers crossed! Thanks for posting this. 

I've set up Dropbox, myself, and I'm just looking for a good solution to moving the data. The download option on Google Drive on the web did not work- timed out and failed.