Google recently announced a pretty sweet new series of shortcuts for creating new Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites, and Forms. Just enter the document type in the address bar of Google Chrome, followed by .new and you have a new document!
Introducing a ✨ .new ✨ time-saving trick for users. Type any of these .new domains to instantly create Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites or Forms ↓ pic.twitter.com/erMTHOsdyH
— Google Docs (@googledocs) October 25, 2018
It only saves a few steps (i.e. open a new tab, go to drive.google.com, click New, click the new document type), but this is pretty wonderful considering the number of Google Documents that are created each week.
I’ve been using it for the past few days and it works great. The only issue I’ve run into is using multiple Google accounts in the same Chrome browser. The new documents default to the first account you’ve signed into in the browser, which happens to be my personal account instead of my work account. If it get too annoying, I may just switch between my default accounts in Chrome.
Here’s a full list of the new shortcuts:
Docs: doc.new, docs.new, document.new
Forms: form.new, forms.new
Sheets: sheet.new, sheets.new, spreadsheet.new
Sites: site.new, sites.new, website.new
Slides: slides.new, deck.new, presentation.new
