More organizing tools
Posted by Darren Delaye, User
Experience Designer
We collaborate using Google Docs
& Spreadsheets so often at work that I now have more than
300 online documents. My project teams create shared documents and
spreadsheets for everything: taking notes in meetings, planning
product launches, analyzing usability studies, and much more. I
also share docs with friends at work to plan baseball outings, and
my fiancée and I are using a shared spreadsheet to help manage the
guest list for our upcoming wedding. In other words, I'm one of
many with a desperate need to organize all my online documents.
Thankfully, I got the chance to design a new interface for Google
Docs & Spreadsheets that includes folders and some convenient
ways to quickly manage and access all my documents (and if
you're like me, your own collection of online docs and
spreadsheets is growing daily).
Now when you sign in, you'll see a new interface that lets you
create personal folders for each of your projects, and drag your
online documents and spreadsheets into them. On the lefthand side,
you'll see a list of all the people you are collaborating with;
click on any name to see all the files you're working on with
them. To read more about this new interface, head over to the
Docs & Spreadsheets blog.
The wedding planning continues — but at least all the docs I need
are now easier to find in a folder. Hope your own organizing is
easier now too.
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