9 Best Articles in 2022
Gizmodo
21 Tips to Make Google Docs, Sheets and Slides Work for You
Gizmodo
5 min read · From 2019 · Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides have evolved to become very component online productivity tools, enabling you to churn out documents, spreadsheets and presentations from any computer (with other…
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Fast Company
25 incredibly useful things you didn’t know Google Docs could do
Fast Company
7 min read · From 2018 · Whether you’re a Google Docs newbie or an old pro, you’ll learn something–or several somethings–from this how-to extravaganza.
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industrialempathy.com
Design Docs at Google
industrialempathy.com
9 min read · 2020-07-07 · One of the key elements of Google's software engineering culture is the use of defining software designs through design docs. These are...
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freelancebold.com
16 Google Docs tips and hacks for freelance writers
freelancebold.com
10 min read · Mar 20th · Spending most of your client writing time in Google Docs? You’ll love these tips, shortcuts, and hacks to become more efficient in Google Docs.
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The Atlantic
The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs
The Atlantic
3 min read · From 2019 · How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class
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Hermit Crab
24 Google Docs Templates That Will Make Your Life Easier
Hermit Crab
10 min read · From 2016 · Too much time can easily be wasted trying to format documents that have already been put together by someone else. If you use Google Docs, here are 24 time-saving templates that'll let you get on with using the documents, rather than struggling with putting them together in the first place. The templates below have been split…
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Lifehacker
How Kids Are Using Google Docs to Bully Each Other
Lifehacker
2 min read · From 2019 · As a parent, you might walk past your child’s room and see her happily typing away on a Google Docs page. “Lovely!” you think. “She’s probably working on her science report or finishing up her essay on the rise of RBG.”
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TechCrunch
Google Docs gets an API for task automation
TechCrunch
4 min read · From 2019 · Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually in the company’s online office suite. The API has been in developer preview since last April’s Google Cloud Next 2018 and is now available to all developers. […]
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Quartz
How Google docs became an unexpected tool for political dissent
Quartz
~17 min read · Feb 15th · Google docs can be used as a form of social media, for crowdsourcing, for political organizing, and for union organizing.
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First Round
Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact
First Round
20+ min read · Apr 19th · After tackling startup challenges from Stripe Press to Figma Education, Brie Wolfson shares her personal collection of templates — the docs that she's used to stay focused on the work that matters and…
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The Verge
Google Docs’ updated tables are designed for project management
The Verge
1 min read · May 3rd · Part of its "smart canvas" initiative.
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VICE
Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken
VICE
3 min read · Apr 19th · A feature rolling out this month uses algorithms to suggest edits in Google Docs, but falls into the same bias traps it’s trying to prevent.
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workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
1 min read · Mar 29th · What’s changing In Google Docs, you can now select “Automatically detect Markdown” from Tools > Preferences to enable auto correcting for M...
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20+ min read · Apr 19th · After tackling startup challenges from Stripe Press to Figma Education, Brie Wolfson shares her personal collection of templates — the docs that she's used to stay focused on the work that matters and…
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gdoc.pub
Publish good looking Google Docs
gdoc.pub
1 min read · From 2016 · Google Docs are nice, but they look ugly when published to the web. Well... not anymore!
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workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering: this may impact some Chrome extensions
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
1 min read · 2021-05-12 · What’s changing We’re updating the way Google Docs renders documents. Over the course of the next several months, we’ll be migrating the un...
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MIT Technology Review
How Google Docs became the social media of the resistance
MIT Technology Review
6 min read · 2020-06-06
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youneedawiki.com
YNAW | Create a wiki with Google Docs
youneedawiki.com
1 min read · From 2019 · Turn your Google docs into a wiki
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TechCrunch
Google rolls out '.new' links for instantly creating new Docs, Slides, Sheets and Forms
TechCrunch
4 min read · From 2018 · Google Docs just rolled out a time-saving trick that’s sure to be welcomed by heavy users of Docs, or any of Google’s other productivity tools like Sheets, Slides, Sites or Forms. The company this week introduced its “.new” domain, which can be used to instantly create a new file across any of these services, it […]
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TNW
WordPress.com for Google Docs lets you edit in Docs and publish in WordPress
TNW
3 min read · From 2017 · Wordpress is teaming up with Google to bring an integration for Docs that lets you write, edit and collaborate with colleagues – and never lose work.
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atomicdocs.io
Atomic Docs
atomicdocs.io
From 2016 · Front end style guide generator and Sass partial manager. Atomic Docs is built with Sass and PHP
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The Verge
Microsoft’s new Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids
The Verge
7 min read · From 2020 · Fluid is Microsoft’s big push for entirely new documents on the web.
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