Google Docs has become an especially valuable tool for both personal and professional users over the last year, with its instantly visible collaborator changes, essentially G-drive functionality, improved sharing, a smoother interface, and more. Now, Google has updated the entire interface to make your Docs easier to organize.
First things first. Since Google has added the capability to upload literally any file type, with greater support for access to those files directly from Docs (for example, you can now play uploaded videos directly from your browser), new organization was necessary for different file types. This has been done, with special attention being paid to different document and media types.
For all files, it’s easier to get an “at a glance” idea of what the document is. The right-hand panel of the document list will now provide important details of the document you’ve selected, including a thumbnail, your “last modified” date, the folder of the document, and detailed sharing settings. Further, users looking to just sort through media will really enjoy the new image gallery feature, which lets you look through your images using a full-screen slide show.
Docs is also gaining some features that make it work more like your Gmail inbox. For example, “priority organization” (a cousin to Gmail’s Priority Inbox) and other sorting settings allow you to display items in your preferred order. More importantly, Google Docs now has a “home” page which works basically like an inbox; your documents can be added to or removed from this page in an archive-like fashion.
There are plenty of other added details, and the full post at the Google Docs Blog tells us more while providing some lovely pictures. However, the funnest way to learn the new organization tools is to dive into Docs for yourself; as these features are live, you can do precisely that.
