Google Docs
Created: 2018-01-02 09:47:04 -0800 Modified: 2020-11-04 15:39:30 -0800
Basics
Section titled “Basics”- Linking to arbitrary lines of the document: Insert → Bookmark
- Stop automatically capitalizing words (reference): Tools → Preferences → Automatically capitalize words
- You can use https://docs.new/ to immediately make a new document instead of having to navigate through Google Drive. You can apparently customize the folder that it saves to (reference)
- The “tabs” feature is great for design documents—keep the main content in one tab and use another tab as a scratch pad.
Keyboard shortcuts
Section titled “Keyboard shortcuts”- Ctrl+alt+A, ctrl+alt+H: show or hide document outline
- Alt+enter: navigate to the link under the cursor
Downloading images
Section titled “Downloading images”UPDATE (Tue 11/05/2024): looks like you can now right-click, copy the image as markdown, then you can paste it into an online base64-to-png tool like this one. Note that the base64 part starts after the base64, and should not include the > at the end of the copied string.
Download as → Web page (html, zipped), then look in the images folder.
Troubleshooting
Section titled “Troubleshooting”Can’t open a document on Android
Section titled “Can’t open a document on Android”If Google Docs on Android ever says “can’t open document” and you’re certain you have permissions, just delete the app’s storage and try again. I usually wouldn’t have to take any action for this to eventually get resolved, but it was happening over the course of days and I even had it set to grant offline access.