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Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by fragmede on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:28PM (#21393819)
As mentioned on the linked page, http://docs.new, http://sheets.new, and http://slides.new exist as shortcuts to get to a new google doc, but it doesn't play well with Chrome's address bar - using them makes getting to existing docs and sheets take an extra step. Not the worst, but still, kind of annoying.
Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by tpmx on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:48PM (#21393921)
If you have a both a personal gmail account and a for-work "google for business" account - the shortcut will take you to whatever account you signed into first.

If you attempt to switch to a different account after accessing https://docs.new/, that will trigger an "ask for permission to access document" dialog.

Not awesome.

(AFAIK, the only way to fix this is to sign out and then log back in, in the "correct" order.)

(This is on a Windows desktop running Chrome.)

Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by jianglai on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:15PM (#21394069)
You can try docs.new/1 and docs.new/2.
Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by tpmx on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:21PM (#21394104)
Nice!

I do understand why you didn't advertise that on the web site.

This problem is a common theme amongst all of the Google properties. (I run into it so much in the GCP console, too.) I would really like an explicit option to select the "default" or "primary" account, in that top-right user dropdown.

Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by philsnow on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:45AM (#21397061)
multilogin just won't go away, will it?
Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:59PM (#21393969)
Note on Android this actually works great. Typing docs.new gives me a modal where I can choose between my work and personal account, and then dumps me in the docs editor app with a new doc.
Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by tpmx on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:09PM (#21394039)
Surely "PCs" must the dominant form factor for Google Docs/Sheets/Slides authoring? Still?

I mean, it's neat that you can edit a google doc on your phone, but who actually spends hours authoring that doc, tapping on a software keyboard on 5 inch touch screen?

Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by toast0 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:51PM (#21394550)
Lots of people don't have a PC at all. If they're using Google Docs, it's with their phone.
Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by tln on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:04PM (#21394003)
On chrome for Android, I am asked which account to use.

On chrome desktop, I have separate profiles for work and home so nothing is intermingled.

Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by SmellyGeekBoy on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @06:46AM (#21396247)
Works great with container tabs in Firefox.
Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability by snailmailman on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:55PM (#21393954)
oooh neat! this is something i can see myself using quite often. i've got google drive bookmarked, but i do also type in drive.google.com or docs.google.com etc into the url bar quite a lot, often times to make a new document.

now i can just do ctrl+t->docs.new->start typing words on a page