Newbie question, how/where to store my data for a chrome plugin (having folders, notes & bookmarks)

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Newbie question - I have never created a chrome plugin before this. Nor am I a programmer. But attempting to create a plugin which will have folders, sub-folders, (plain-text) notes and bookmarks.. I think its doable.

So what is the best way to store all this data? Can I just store it in chrome.storage? I saw another plugin storing 'NOTES' data using sql. What is the standard practice? How/where should I store all this data (about folders, sub-folders, notes & URL bookmarks)?

Posted 14-Jun-15 5:04am

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Ben J. Boyle · Answer 1 · 2015-06-15T07:55:00

Chrome storage would be the default, and can be used to sync information between computers for a logged in user. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/storage[^]Bear in mind too that chrome storage does have data limits, I think 5MB for local storage and 100KB for sync storage.

Aside from that, i think you're looking at needing something you can access with an API to store data, maybe in Google Drive, or using an App Engine backend, or Parse.com. perhaps.