Google Assistant is a powerful voice assistant platform that I personally use every day on my phone and my Google Home. Among other things, I use Assistant to turn on my music, change the brightness or colors of my LIFX connected lightbulbs, add items to a grocery list, ask random trivia questions, and more, all using just my voice. It’s been rolling out to Android Nougat devices over the past few months, and to put it into even more users’ hands Google has recently released the Google Assistant SDK.
I've followed the evolution of Google Drive right from the start. What started as a bare bones online word processor in the form of Writely turned into the cloud based productivity suite we know as Google Docs, which finally culminated into an all-in-one digital drive and file sync utility. It takes a few minutes to download your files, and also to cache copies of the Docs apps. This is available for desktop devices for Windows and Mac, as well as for Android and iOS on mobile. Offline access to Google Docs can also be enabled in Google Apps for businesses. The feature isn’t available to individual users, though,.
Thanks to on XDA Developers, many enthusiasts, including myself, have gotten it up and running on Mac, Windows, and Linux computers. Keep reading to find out how you can install it as well The XDA post goes into great detail on how to configure the API and install Google Assistant from within your computer’s command line, but for more visual learners, this step-by-step instructional video (below) should hopefully make things a little easier, especially since you’ll be working entirely from within the command line throughout this process. All of the commands used in the video are listed in order below.
The good thing is there’s a workaround and it can be done by adding desktop shortcuts. So with a simple desktop shortcut, you’re just a “double-click” away to creating a new Google Docs document. Just read this post to learn how.
How to create desktop shortcuts for Google Docs in Windows. First and foremost, open your web browser and make sure that you’re already signed in to your Google account. By signing in to your Google account, you can open any Google service or app without being constantly prompted to enter your Google account email and password. So once you’re logged in, just minimize your browser and go to your desktop. Right-click on your desktop and then on the right-click menu, select “New” “Shortcut”. On the dialog box that appears, paste the following URL on the “Type the location of the item” field:. For creating new Google Docs documents, use:.
For creating new Sheets, use:. For creating new Presentations, use:. To continue, click “Next”.
On the next dialog, you will be asked to enter a name for new shortcut. Just enter “Google Docs” or any name that you want.
Click “Finish” to confirm. Setting a custom icon for your new Google Docs desktop shortcut. Now, that your Google Docs desktop shortcut is ready, you may opt to change its icon as well. Just right-click on the shortcut icon and then on the menu that appears, select “Properties”. Go to the “Web Document” tab and then click “Change Icon”. Select the icon that you want, click “OK” then “Apply” then “OK” again. So every time you click the shortcut icon for Google Docs on your desktop, it will automatically open Google Docs on your default web browser.
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Just click the “+” icon on the bottom-right side of your Google Docs interface to create a new document and you’re all set. If you want to create another shortcut for Google Sheets or Presentations, just repeat the steps above but use the given URLs for Sheets and Presentations.