If you spend a lot of your day working in Google Drive, creating new documents, slides, sheets, and forms just got a lot easier. This week Google introduced a bunch of new shortcuts for Google Docs that allow you to create new files without having to go to Google Drive proper in order to do so.
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It’s not going to save you a ton of time, but it does streamline the whole process. Here’s a rundown of all of the new shortcuts. To use them, just type them into the address bar of the browser of your choice and a new file will be created:
Google Docs
doc.new
Docs.new
Document.new
Sheets
sheet.new
sheets.new
spreadsheet.new
Sites
site.new
sites.new
website.new
Slides
slide.new
slides.new
deck.new
Presentation.new
Forms
form.new
forms.new
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