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Comment by iamdave | Hacker News Reader

....I love it already. I practically live inside Google Drive for work.

Question for the maker or anyone else: how can I turn these into bookmarklets so I can save them with favicons to my bookmarks bar?

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Bookmark https://docs.google.com/document/create ? Or am I missing something?

Yeah, I don't see the point also. You can also create a shortcut in Chrome or Firefox for it.

I hope all users do create the shortcuts. It's definitely a better experience. But if you're using a friend's computer or are on a different browser where you don't have the bookmark, fastdocs.co is a friendly, fast way to quickly access the shortcut.

There are unique URLs for each document type, and they are also different per platform (web/iOS/android). So, yes bookmarks are great, but it's helpful to have all the necessary links in one place.

the different urls are in the source:

    var urls = {
				"web": {
					"doc": "https://docs.google.com/document/create",
					"sheet": "https://sheets.google.com/create",
					"presentation": "https://slides.google.com/create",
					"drawing": "https://drawings.google.com/create"
				},
				"ios": {
					"doc": "googledocs://docs.google.com/document/create",
					"sheet": "googlesheets://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?new",
					"presentation": "googleslides://docs.google.com/presentation/create",
					"drawing": "https://drawings.google.com/create"
				},
				"android": {
					"doc": "intent://#Intent;package=com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.docs;end",
					"sheet": "intent://#Intent;package=com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.sheets;end",
					"presentation": "intent://#Intent;package=com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.slides;end",
					"drawing": "https://drawings.google.com/create"
				},
			}

Creator here. Yes, bookmarks are the best user experience here. That's why direct links are included on the about page (or you can right-click, save-as on the homepage links too). You can drag/drop the bookmarks on the about page (fastdocs.co/about.html) to have the bookmarks pre-populate with relevant text titles. Thanks for the feedback!

Bug report on the "about" page: http://screencast.com/t/xdSZrifx5Ct0

Had exactly the same reaction.

Quick google yields: https://github.com/kyletns/quick-docs

Bit involved to set up, but does the trick.

@flinner - would you be prepared to host something similar as an improvement on the bookmarks?

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