Three Google Drive Tricks You Need to Master to Optimize Your Time

Google's cloud storage service is much more than just a file store. You can optimize your time and improve your organization with some little-known tricks. It's estimated that more than 2 billion people regularly use Google Drive: this cloud storage service is used daily by students, employees, teachers, and companies to store documents, share folders, and collaborate on projects. However, are they aware that it has many other features that contribute to better organization, greater time savings, and greater efficiency? Keyboard shortcuts, advanced search, and offline editing are three essential elements to master. Use advanced search to locate any file. Over time, Drive often becomes a catch-all: work documents, PDFs, images, invoices, or presentations coexist in the same place. And finding the file you need isn't always easy or quick. This is where advanced search comes in: to filter by file type (document, PDF, spreadsheet, presentation, image, video, folder...), owner (you or a contact), words within the document, modification date, location (specific folder, trash...) or people with whom the file is shared, you just need to click on the filters icon next to the search box (the down arrow)