There’s a Stupid Simple Wonderful New Way to Make Google Docs

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LOOK, WE WON’T waste your time here. There are more important things going on in the world. But if you use any of Google’s G Suite products, you’ll be glad you read this. You know how every time you want to create a new Google doc or spreadsheet, you have to go into Google Drive, and then click New, and then click on what kind of file you need, and the whole time you’re just thinking about all the other, better things you could be doing with the six seconds it takes to click those clicks? Good news: You don’t have to do that anymore. Instead, just type in doc.new, or sheet.new, or slide.new, or form.new if you’re an edge case, or whatever. And behold! A new file will unfold before you.

It’s not just those! Variants also work, like sheets.new or spreadsheets.new. And yes, it's a very small advance. But these days, even the little wins are worth celebrating.There’s no real magic to this; Google’s just taking advantage of the “.new” top level domain registry, which it has operated since 2014 through its Charleston Road Registry subsidiary. (A TLD is the part of the URL that comes after the dot.) In its application at the time, the company said potential uses “may include but are not limited to applications such as media (tv show.new, author name.new) and marketing campaigns (cheerios.new, shampoo.new).”

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Great: one of the main reasons I was put off by online office aps has disppeared for Google Docs, hopefully Microsoft will copy this behaviour (although TLD's are gone to google, so they have to think about another trick).

Is there also a stupidly simple way to save files to local disk?