#Googledoc

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2026-03-11

🎉 Hooray! It's 2026 and we've finally standardized source maps—a mere 10 years after we started using them! 🙄 Apparently, a Google Doc was the secret sauce holding the web together all this time. 🍝✨
bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/po

2025-04-21

#Google sera probablement le + facile comme prochaine étape même si je dois archiver/trier un paquet de photos abandonner sa messagerie, #googledoc, drive ou #youtube sera assez aisé
Côté Streaming Vidéo #Prime Vidéo ne sera pas la plateforme la plus difficile à quitter

2/3

Shradha Mukherjeesmukher2@pixelfed.de
2024-03-13
RT #www.smukher2.eu #www.smukher2.co.uk #www.smukher2.com #www.smukher2.net #www.smukher2.org #smukher2 To #Google #Everyone:
Today when signing into my Gmail found this exciting teaser from #Google "A new look is coming soon: Google is improving its sign-in page with a modern look and feel" (screenshot attached). It always makes me happy and inspires me to see Google doing what it does best, that makes them "the hottest business, media and technology success of our time" --quote from title of book The Google Story https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164323.The_Google_Story by David Vise #goodreads, this book helped me a lot to learn from the genius of Google. Google has an uncanny ability to innovate novel methods to make products that stand out from the crowd, even when many others were trying out (inventing) different methods to achieve the same goal. #BillGates quote explains it nicely, "Gates acknowledged that Microsoft, for example—notwithstanding discussions about Internet search—didn’t execute as well as Google did. Though we were talking about it, he said, the talent we put on it and the way we conceptualized it weren’t sufficient in retrospect. That's always going to happen because there are thousands of companies trying specific things, and, you know, 999 of them fail. But there'll be one that has picked a very dedicated approach that does really catch on, and of course Google’s the best example of that."-quote from book The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time_ How Apple, Ford, IBM, Zappos, and others made radical choices that changed the course of business by Verne Harnish et al https://www.amazon.com/FORTUNE-Greatest-Business-Decisions-Time/dp/1603200592 #amazon. From my own experience I can give an example, so there are many #Notes apps and #Office #Docs apps available. Now turns out #WPSoffice that is otherwise comparable with #MicrosoftOffice has a simple feature of 'search within document' missing on its android app, but on other had #GoogleDocs can search inside document (find and replace button/tab) and also search selected text on document externally on your default browser search engine (search icon on keyboard). This example, to reiterate what #BillGates quotes above, shows again that when many are trying to build something (here build a note/doc app), #Google's way of building it (here Google Doc app) is better. I also got the new #GoogleKeep note taking app, and will try it out in future when need arises, but for now #GoogleDoc is what I'm using for my article 'Causal Climate Change Environment, Beyond CO2: Cow burp and MethaneSAT' , and in one click #GoogleAssistant is doing #TextToSpeech to read aloud to me my draft writing and also read out to me the online references I'm using, not to mention #GoogleAssistant is also taking written notes of my #dictation (writing down what I say). I usually do this #TextToSpeech #dictation with #Apple #Siri #Mac #iPad #iPhone but now on I will do this with #Google #Android #GoogleAssistant too, don't be jealous #Siri and #GoogleAssistant you're both the apple of my eye i.e. I like you both equally! :)
Tech Chillitechchiili
2024-03-04

How to Use Gemini AI in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, and Drive?

See here - techchilli.com/how-to/how-to-u

Martin Geislermgeisler@ohai.social
2024-01-21

@acrypthash Hi, a very late comment here (I wanted to see if anybody else had used the #googledoc hashtag 😄)

I don't think there is a direct password feature. What you do instead is to make the document visible to everybody with the link, and then *treat the link as the password*.

The links to Google Docs are already of a form that cannot be guessed. So this is equivalent to putting the document up on an easy-to-guess URL and then distribute a hard-to-guess password via some other channel.

Martin Geislermgeisler@ohai.social
2024-01-21

From discussing with @imperio on a #rustdoc issue, I realize that I might be alone in copy-pasting links into #GitHub issues? You can copy a link from any web page and paste it into the GitHub editor. You get a proper #Markdown link in return!

See github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull for a screenshot of what I mean.

I found this some years ago and I used it all the time now. It also works in other places such as a #googledoc. There you'll want to reset the formatting `Ctrl+\` afterwards.

Share away 😀

MiKlo:~/citizen4.eu$💙💛miklo@soc.citizen4.eu
2023-05-02
@radpanda @piotrsikora @Mateusz
Faktycznie, ten #googleanalytics jest również na stronie którą się już bezpośrednio udostępnia ankietowanym. Co za 🐽świnie🐽...
Ale to jedyne miejsce jakie znam gdzie udostępniają ten #OpenDataKit za darmo. A to naprawdę dobry system.
W każdym razie Ja bym jednak szedł w to a nie w #GoogleDoc .
Zaprojektuj tam formularz i się odezwij to może (...) uda się coś wykombinować z wersją #selfhosting tego systemu. Same definicje ankiety można eksportować/importować (xml, xls) jakby co.
MiKlo:~/citizen4.eu$💙💛miklo@soc.citizen4.eu
2023-05-01
@jaz And did you ask people first if they want to invite #gafam (here: via #googleDoc ) to this panel ?
Are there really no #foss / free from #corpo #surveillance tools ( #nextcloud, #cryptpad, etc.) to need google ?
As admin of the #fediverse server, I do not intend to invite them here in any form.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴HistoPol
2023-04-06

Folks, I just found a treasure trove:

a list of over 1,300 that already are on in the form of a

In order to give the its final push, journalists there need to see that there really is an audience for them here in the free

Some pull marketing would be helpful: follow as many, as you find sensible. This helps a lot.

Please boost!

@feditips
@FediFollows
@fediversenews

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

acrypthash👨🏻‍💻acrypthash@infosec.exchange
2023-02-20

What is the best way of putting a password on a Google Doc? I am having this issue where I can apply a password in Microsoft Office locally on my PC, but when I upload the file, the document is read only, with the password working.

If I create a Google word doc, I don't see anywhere that gives me the option of assigning a password... I did some searching and found something like
password.youfiles.net, but I am not too sure how legit this is... Tying my Google account to a third party makes me nervous.

Can anyone recommend the best way of applying a password to a Google Doc?

#security #password #googledoc

2023-02-07

#Idea: Open a new #GoogleDoc and write out a bunch of bullet points about a document/memo/essay you want to write then click "Extensions > Convert to Prose". This would call #ChatGPT (or whatever) and convert those bullet points into a full doc which structures the ideas, elaborates a bit, and provides a concrete starting point.

I know I always start docs with a bunch of bullet points and slowly expand on them. Having a robot start that process would help get complex ideas on paper and help with the "blank document" problem.

2023-01-29

#ApplePages is a surprisingly good application. I hadn't touched it in years because I lived in #Quip or #GoogleDoc

I tried doing my resume in latest version of #MicrosoftWord and I wanted to throw my computer across a room after hours of frustration.

I gave up and redid the entire thing in Pages in 1/4 the time and none of the headaches.

PeterD 🇩🇪 🇨🇦peterdeppisch@mstdn.ca
2023-01-23

@jessamyn Could you please add me to your comment: 'Smoother "follow someone from another instance" flow' on the #GoogleDoc Thank you. It is one of my pet peeves. Mastodon maybe #federated but depending on server instances settings, more security or less security, an #instance can be isolated. I follow readily but sometimes I don't think that person ever gets notified. 🙂​

2023-01-06

Part 2 of desperate for help post: Does anyone know of an app that does not lose focus when using #voiceover with a #braille display and an #iPad pro? I have tried #Microsoft word #byword, #IAWRITER and #googleDoc. All lose focus quite a lot, or the braille display will show the cursor at one point, but it is actually at a different place in the text. It is making writing very difficult for my #studies.

Claudio Cicalicaludio
2022-12-08

I have been using google docs for maaaany years and I still don't understand how those "default styles" work. I lost count of the times I had to increase then line height, add "space after paragraph" and change the awful Arial to something nicer.

No wonder if in general people don't care about the style of the documents if it's so hard to permanently set your own standard.

Senthil Rajasekharaniamsenthil
2022-11-10

Found a surprise while editing a Google doc.

Watch this video to learn how to quickly insert an emoji in your Google Doc.

Ludovic Dubostldubost@framapiaf.org
2022-07-22

RT @N0thing2Hide@twitter.com

#Protip : vous voulez sortir des Gafam mais rien ne remplace #GoogleDrive, #GoogleDoc, #GoogleShit ou Micro$oft ? Si ! Il existe aujourd'hui de très bonnes alternatives à ces outils, payantes et même gratuites !
A thread ⬇️

🐦🔗: twitter.com/N0thing2Hide/statu

2022-07-21

#Protip, vous voulez sortir des Gafam mais rien ne remplace #GoogleDrive, #GoogleDoc, #GoogleShit ou Micro$oft ? Il y a aujourd'hui de très bonnes alternatives, gratuites ou payantes
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Martin Fuchswahl_beobachter
2021-07-27

Extrem nice Idee von @TroyEricG. Seine neue Webseite ist ein simples .

Vielleicht auch eine Inspiration für alle Politiker:innen mit wenig Budget/Lust auf Webdesign ohne Berührungsängsten vor Google? 💯💨

docs.google.com/document/d/1zn

Via @hatr // @hwieduwilt

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