Just got this today and I'm loving it. I've felt for a while that Google has a "missing middle" when it comes to notes, between a Keep note and a full on document, that you couldn't really structure in the same way as a OneNote notebook for example. I use the outline, and headers, and smart chips and so on, but that can be a bit fiddly. This absolutely fills in that missing middle. Game changer for me. I'll no longer be idly thinking about trying other note taking programs.
This completely changes how I'm gonna be using Google docs. The fact that searching in a document searches through all the tabs makes it so much better too.
What a helpful feature! I hope I can put it to good use. It has so much potential for a lot of people writing on the same document. Now I can just assign each of my teammates at school one tab and then we just compile everything on a different "final tab" for presentation with a different format, so we don't mess up each other's parts without having to manage two or more documents at a time!
Hey that’s an excellent question. I’ve been playing around more and found that both printing and exporting inside docs/ the tab ONLY does the tab. If you press the 3 dots in Google Drive, then you can print or export the entire doc with every tab. It does change the formatting slightly to include a page for each tab name, then whatever is on that tab.
Not very nice. The tabs in general should have been optional or they should allow easier use of the headings outline. Not everybody needs tabs and especially not everybody needs separate docs inside docs. Now it's floating there requiring you to think about what tab you are on and makes it much more complicated to use
That’s fair. And yeah I agree having the option to toggle between the two for cases like that. It’s silly that this is the option atm, but may be helpful if you are doing a long project, you can hide the element for the button by holding shift > right clicking > inspect, then find the div class for the button and hide it. It’ll highlight the button but it’s the one with “miniChapterSwitcherCore” You’d have to do this every time you refresh and open a doc. So not a great method but again if you are working on a project for a good chunk of time, may help out
Just got this today and I'm loving it. I've felt for a while that Google has a "missing middle" when it comes to notes, between a Keep note and a full on document, that you couldn't really structure in the same way as a OneNote notebook for example. I use the outline, and headers, and smart chips and so on, but that can be a bit fiddly. This absolutely fills in that missing middle. Game changer for me. I'll no longer be idly thinking about trying other note taking programs.
This completely changes how I'm gonna be using Google docs. The fact that searching in a document searches through all the tabs makes it so much better too.
Yeah agreed! I should have covered that in the video. The search/ find and replace works as I hoped where you can search a tab or all tabs!
As a writer that has 10,000 words of lore on one sloppy document, this video is a godsend, good sir.
I'm also a writer and this is an absolute game changer for my notes for books. Really like it so far.
What a helpful feature! I hope I can put it to good use. It has so much potential for a lot of people writing on the same document. Now I can just assign each of my teammates at school one tab and then we just compile everything on a different "final tab" for presentation with a different format, so we don't mess up each other's parts without having to manage two or more documents at a time!
I just switched to take my notes on Google Docs and saw this feature today! Couldn't be more glad.
Yeah it’s a great addition - super excited to get organized 😁
Thanks for hint , this will be very helpful
When you download Google Docs to Microsoft Word, does it only download that current tab or the whole documents?
Hey that’s an excellent question. I’ve been playing around more and found that both printing and exporting inside docs/ the tab ONLY does the tab. If you press the 3 dots in Google Drive, then you can print or export the entire doc with every tab. It does change the formatting slightly to include a page for each tab name, then whatever is on that tab.
Not very nice. The tabs in general should have been optional or they should allow easier use of the headings outline. Not everybody needs tabs and especially not everybody needs separate docs inside docs. Now it's floating there requiring you to think about what tab you are on and makes it much more complicated to use
That’s fair. And yeah I agree having the option to toggle between the two for cases like that.
It’s silly that this is the option atm, but may be helpful if you are doing a long project, you can hide the element for the button by holding shift > right clicking > inspect, then find the div class for the button and hide it. It’ll highlight the button but it’s the one with “miniChapterSwitcherCore”
You’d have to do this every time you refresh and open a doc. So not a great method but again if you are working on a project for a good chunk of time, may help out