“I’m all the time performing some horrible workaround to attempt to get to Docs rapidly,” our Senior Expertise Editor Jake Peterson advised me this morning. “It’s by no means fast.” However science has now achieved what all of us thought was unimaginable: an truly quick, easy approach to open a clean Google doc while you want one. And better of all, there are matching hacks for getting a clean spreadsheet, beginning a video assembly, and extra.
All it’s a must to do is sort “docs.new” to get a brand new Google doc. This works in any browser, since “.new” is equal to “.com”—mainly, there are a bunch of top-level domains that every level to a web page that permits you to begin a brand new file or undertaking. Attempt these:
- docs.new to open a clean Google Doc doc
- sheets.new to open a clean Google Sheets spreadsheet
- meet.new to start out a video assembly with your self in Google Meet (it supplies a hyperlink you possibly can copy to ask different members)
- cal.new to create an occasion in your Google calendar
- type.new to create a brand new Google Kind
- slides.new to create a brand new slideshow in Google Slides
The doc (or sheet, or assembly) will open in your presently logged-in Google account. For those who’re logged in to a number of accounts, you should utilize a quantity to decide on the account: docs.new/3 will open a brand new doc in your third account. Confusingly, this is similar account that can seem with “/u/2” within the URL for an everyday Google Docs web page, since these begin counting from zero. However as soon as you determine which is which, you possibly can create a bookmark in your browser for whichever shortcut you’d like even simpler entry to.
The .new shortcuts work for extra than simply Google merchandise, by the best way. You could find an entire checklist of them right here. Microsoft’s on-line merchandise are included: phrase.new for a brand new Phrase doc, excel.new for a brand new Excel spreadsheet, and so forth. There’s additionally playlist.new for a brand new Spotify playlist, photoshop.new to create a brand new picture in Adobe Photoshop, and a ton of coding shortcuts like js.new to create a brand new Javascript undertaking in CodeSandbox.
