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12 Jun 2008

A Dashboard for Google Docs

Google Docs has recently added an option to save advanced searches. Besides showing the list of saved searches in the sidebar, Google Docs creates an iGoogle-like page with containers that include results for each of your saved searches. You can reorder the containers using drag and drop and select the maximum number of results.

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Depending on the way you use Google Docs, the dashboard is a great opportunity to group related documents, see a list of recently published documents, display the content of a folder or the documents shared with you by a collaborator.

To create a new container, click on “Show search options”, build your query and click on “Save this search”. A simple example of container shows all the documents from the “School” folder that have been shared with you:

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The customized views can be edit or deleted from the sidebar. While the dashboard can’t be configured as a start page, bookmarking http://docs.google.com/#home is a fast way to access it.

via Google Operating Systems

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