How to control the used Gmail account when using slides.new, docs.new, etc.
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Thanks to the new
top-level domains, many companies provide short URLs to use their product quickly. CodePen has pen
, CodeSandbox has react
, GitHub has repo
, and they're many more out there. These URLs make the web feel very app-like, I like that!
And of course, Google is providing new
URLs with doc
or docs
and slide
and slides
, too. The problem with these URLs is that many people use Docs and Slides with multiple Gmail accounts.
Which account should be used when using docs
? And what happens if Google constantly chooses the wrong account to create a new document.
Today I learned, that Google's new
URLs support a URL parameter to specify the used Gmail account:
docs
– primary account.new/1 docs
- secondary account.new/2 - and so on...
That's pretty cool!
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