Awesome Tips about Google Products

Table of Contents

• Awesome Tips Series about Google Products
  • .new Shortcuts
• Calendar
  • Sync shared calendar in Android
• GBoard
  • Quick Typing
  • Misc
• Voice Typing
• Google Photos
  • Search at Google Photos
  • Embed Google Photo into Website
• Google Drive/Docs
  • Compact: Hide the menu mode
  • Embedding a PDF From Drive into a Blog
  • [Embedding a DPF from internet into a Blog]
  • Embed Images from Google Drive into Website
  • Related:
• Google Maps
  • Search for Places on Your Route
  • Add custom search engine to Chrome
  • Tips, Tricks about More Google Products
• Keep
• Google Contacts
• Other Google Products
  • Google Lens
• Google Music
• Misc
• Feature Requests
  • Google Photos
  • Related Posts

Awesome Tips Series about Google Products

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Calendar

• How to share your calendar

Sync shared calendar in Android

• click the three horizonal lines, scroll down to settings, tap that, then scroll down to find the calendars in question and tap on that and turn on sync.

GBoard

• Use the Spacebar as a Trackpad to move pointer faster
  • slide your finger back and forth on the spacebar (till the end of the screen)

Quick Typing

• To type capitalize words by long press the Cap key till the icon changes
• The space bar is a trackpad
  • Add period and space to the previous sentence by simply double tapping the space bar.
• Quickly enter symbols by tap on the “123” button and swipe upward

punctuation key(.)

• Type other punctuations quickly by holding the period key.
• Type ? by just holding the period key.
• Swipe to delete: not supported in iOS

Misc

• Long press the first row characters to type numbers.
• Translate remembers the frequently used languages, so we can easily switch ex: between English and Chinese
• One-Handed mode
  • tap and hold on the globe then then tap the left or right keyboard indentation.
• Voice-to-text: Long press on the space bar
• Search Emoji/Gif by name
• Share search/location/youtube

Voice Typing

• Punctuation Commands for Dictation
  • Support: period, comma, question mark, exclamation point, apostrophe, enter or new line, new paragraph, tab key, colon, dash, ellipsis or dot dot dot, ampersand, asterisk, at sign, backslash, forward slash, open/close bracket, open(close) parenthesis.

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Google Photos

• Add photos to a shared album or an existing album
  • Select (multiple) photo(s) -> choose the +(add to or create new) button at top right
    • Choose Shared album to add to a shared album
    • Choose Album to add to an existing album
• Label the people to make it easier to search and integrate with other systems like Google Assistant.
• Merge two faces
  • Give the first one a name, then go to the other face group, click add a name, choose the already existing one, Google Photos will suggest you to merge them.
• Create live album including old photos or not
• Archive an image: it doesn’t show but we can still check it at /archive
• Create an album from search result
  • Select all images (select the first one, hold the shift key then choose the last one), then click + at the top right to create an album.
• Quick Urls: /unsaved, /people, /archive, /albums

Search at Google Photos

• Explore what Photos can search by clicking the Show more at search page
• by name, place, time: (last week/year)
• Specific Day Search: 2019-01-01
• Specific Month Search: January(Jan) 2019
• #videos, #AutoAwesome, #mobile
• pano,
• The_Kid_Name year_when_he/she_is_a_baby

Embed Google Photo into Website

• Create a shareable link of that image and paste the link to ctrlq.org/google/photos. It will download the page and parse it to get the direct link from google.
• The link would be https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/the_big_id=w2400, we can change the width and height by change it to something like: =w$the_width-h$the_height

Google Drive/Docs

• use Ctrl+Option+Z or Option+/(in compact mode) to search and execute command
• Click or Cmd+Option+X in the top left toolbar.
• Install and enable Grammarly on Google Docs

Compact: Hide the menu mode

• Click Hide the menu mode at top right
  • Ctrl+Shift+F seems not work
• How to exit Hide the menu mode
  • Click it again,
  • but some cases, that menu is not visible (bug here)
    1. we can click the explore button at bottom right, then we will be able to see the Hide the menu mode icon.
    2. Or type “Full screen” at top left search the menu to enter full screen mode, then press esc to exit the full screen mode

Embedding a PDF From Drive into a Blog

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?srcid=[put your file id here]&pid=explorer&efh=false&a=v&chrome=false&embedded=true" width="580px" height="480px"></iframe>

[Embedding a DPF from internet into a Blog]

<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https%3A//www.crackingthecodinginterview.com/uploads/6/5/2/8/6528028/cracking_the_coding_skills_-_v6.pdf&amp;embedded=true" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Embed Images from Google Drive into Website

• Get a shareable link from the image in Google drive and replace the id https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id={fileId}
• This link seems to be subject to quotas. So not ideal for public/massive sharing.

Related:

• Embedding PDFs without using JavaScript with embed, iframe, object

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Google Maps

• Share a map or directions with others by using the share function

• Show others where you are directly within iMessage

• print directions

  • click details then print including image or print text only

• Measure distance between two locations

  • Right-click on your starting point then “Choose Measure distance”.
  • Use cases: how far is your place from the forest fire or earthquake.

Search for Places on Your Route

It’s very common we want to search a place between the source and the destination: for example, search the Spring Store between the home and work office. - Add the destination in the Google Maps - Click Directions and then add the source - Click the add button, them move it into the middle of the source and destination - Search your places, the first one is usually the most convenient one, in most cases, we can just click enter.

Add custom search engine to Chrome

• Go to chrome://settings/searchEngines and add the following

Name	keyword	URL
Google maps Search	gm	https://www.google.com/maps?q=%s

• Type gm in Chrome address bar, then type home to here etc
• Query:
  • here, home,
  • Costco near home

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Tips, Tricks about More Google Products

• How to Google Search Like a Pro
• Awesome Tips about Chrome
• Tips, Tricks about Youtube
• Awesome Tips, Tricks about Gmail
• Awesome Tips About Google Blogger

• Google Drive Tips and Tricks

Keep

• Remind based on place
  • Store address for the shopping list
  • It only support one address, it would be great to support multiple address as we go shopping to different stores even for same brand(like Costco)
• How to add new items to the top?
  • Uncheck the Settings: Add new items to the bottom
• Checked items will be moved to the bottom by default.
• Pin a note
• Grab image text from attached image or drawing
• Use list view to show all content
• Use Card view to have a overview and move notes
• Share with others
• Make Google Keep easier to find in mobile.

Google Contacts

• Sync Google Contacts in iPhone
  • Add your Gmail account at Settings -> Passwords & Accounts
  • Change to your Gmail account at Settings -> Contacts -> Default Account
  • So now every time you create an account at Phone app in iPhone, it will be synced to Google Contacts.

Other Google Products

Google Lens

• Google Tasks

Google Music

• Select the genres that you like

• Select the artists that you like

• Search by music type, musician, add it to library.

Misc

• Report bugs: issuetracker
• https://support.google.com

Feature Requests

Google Photos

• Create a slideshow from search result
• Create live album that must contain all of the people

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