Hot tip: Create new docs, even faster

Posted by: Michelle Lee and Dave Young, User experience designers

With all of the meeting notes, design documents, bug lists, presentations, and other files we share with our teams at Google, we create up to a dozen new documents a day. Of course, this means a daily stream of new docs.

To make this as fast as possible, we use these three shortcuts:

1. Drag the links below (one for each type) into your browser bookmarks toolbar (also known as the navigation toolbar).

New Document

New Spreadsheet

New Presentation

2. Now, you can create a new doc simply by clicking the appropriate link. And to create a new doc in a new tab, you can hold Control (command on Mac) while clicking the bookmark.