The BEST Productivity Feature in Google Docs!
About this video
Jeff Su demonstrates Google Docs Smart Chips, introduced with the Smart Canvas update announced at Google I/O, which are accessed by typing @ in a document. He recommends using chips in a central repository or onboarding document: @ a person to insert a chip that on hover shows their basic information and lets you email, message, or schedule with them directly from Docs; @ a file to link Docs, Sheets, Slides, or folders dynamically so title changes are reflected everywhere; and @ date and @ checklist to add dates and checklists. He notes a date chip’s formatting can be changed via its settings icon and a meeting can be booked via Google Calendar from the chip. For recurring meeting notes, typing @ meeting notes and selecting the calendar invite auto-generates attendees, a notes section, and an action items section, and the doc can be attached to that calendar invite on hover — useful for one-off presentations that should not attach to every recurrence. He also shows quick inserts that previously required the menu bar, including @ page number and other page components such as headers, footers, footnotes, watermarks, and bookmarks, @ line for a horizontal separator, and using Heading chips to auto-generate a dynamic table of contents for longer documents.
Key takeaways
- Type @ in Google Docs to insert Smart Chips for people, files, dates, checklists, and other components without hunting through the menu bar.
- People chips are dynamic: hovering shows contact info and lets you email, message, or schedule an event directly from the document.
- File and date chips stay dynamic — if a linked file’s title changes it updates everywhere, and a date can be reformatted or used to book a Calendar meeting in one click.
- Use @ meeting notes with a calendar invite to auto-populate attendees, notes, and action items, and optionally attach the doc to that specific invite.
- Use @ page number, @ line, and Heading 1/Heading 2 chips to quickly add page components, separators, and an automatic table of contents.
Episode details: published February 8, 2022 · 5:32 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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