The search giant has launched a series of new filters designed to help users more quickly navigate larger caches of documents. It has added visibility filters so users can find private documents, public documents or draft documents. It also has added ownership filters so it’s easier to find the documents based on author, or documents others have shared.
Google Docs has also gotten another addition, thanks to Gmail. Google has added a “priority sorting” filter to the documents list, bringing the most important documents to the top of the page, a feature based on Gmail’s popular Priority Inbox feature that algorithmically sifts through a user’s e-mail and tags the most important threads.
Google has also added a preview pane to the documents list. It sits on the right-hand side of the page and displays information like last viewed, tags and who has access to the document. If it’s a multimedia document like a video or a photo, you also have the option to play or view the file as a full-screen slideshow.
The final addition is the inclusion of a “home” menu item. Again, it’s like the Gmail inbox, in that users control which content is in the home list, and they can essentially archive documents that they’re no longer using. Google has also changed “folders” into collections, which works exactly like Gmail labels.
At every single level, this update is about the “Gmailification” of Google Docs. The Google Docs team has applied Gmail’s organization principles in order to make it simpler to navigate. It’s a rather clever update that...
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