Simplify Docs

Makes Google Docs a little simplier

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5.00 (Rating count: 38)

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Pros
  • Removes the intrusive '@' symbol in Google Docs
  • Helps improve focus and concentration while writing
  • Provides a solution when Google does not offer an option to disable the feature
Cons
  • Limited in functionality, only removes the '@' symbol
Most mentioned
  • Removal of the '@' symbol
  • Improved focus and concentration
  • Solution to lack of option to disable feature in Google Docs
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Date Author Rating Lang Comment
2024-04-18
Tom Barclay
en I have no idea how Google's UI designers seem to repeatedly decide to violate the most basic tenet of UI/UX design: Don't take something that works for the majority of your user base and change it such that it now irritates and frustrates most of said user base. Or put another way: Something a minority of users will use should not have to be a distraction to all the other users. That's just BAD UI/UX design. I think living at the Google campuses may somehow end up being an echo-chamber. While I'm ranting: Let me decide what's on my menu bar. It also has become a thing full of annoyance because it has so much I don't ever (and never will) use, yet it eats up real estate that pushes things I use a lot (like intentions and lists) off into a drop down. Daft! Vexatious! Google!
2024-01-30
Josh Estes
en Google docs is usable again! It's such a small thing, but endlessly annoying for someone that never ever inserts stuff like that into the documents I write, and seeing something pop up after I stop typing every time is a distraction and breaks concentration on what I was trying to convey. Why would they ever think "lets add something new, but with no way of turning it off!"
2024-01-30
Dimes
en Thank you so much for this. Every time I made a new line I kept getting irritated and it kept pulling me out of what I was writing. Why Google couldn't implement an 'off' switch themselves, I'll never know. Or maybe just remind you once at the start of a new document and that's it? Why hover it on every new line? Thanks for this extension, it works. People who hate this feature, don't forget to complain via Docs > Help > Help Docs Improve so they don't pull this type of stuff on us in future.
2024-01-30
Don Morton
en I Love You!!!!! :)
2024-01-29
Katie Dozier
en Hooray--this works! Thank you so much; the "@" made googledocs unusable for me.
2024-01-28
Camryn Goldsmith
2024-01-28
Mark Bank
en When I created a new Doc two months ago, it came pre-slathered with widgets at the top. Blank canvas is sacred to the writer, so this was aggressive. What a bad decision. Apparently, that was just an opener. With the @ flashing in front of every new paragraph, it's clear someone high up the chain has lost their mind. My use case is simple, so I will leave if they ask again. In the mean time, thank you for the filter! I bet no user would mind if you also excluded the buttons, slathered across new Docs.
2024-01-28
Linsey
en Finally I can focus without that stupid @ ruining everything I'm trying to write. Thank you for this life saviour.
2024-01-28
Justin Currie
en Thank f-ing god. this thing was killing my writing flow.
2024-01-28
Matt Kelsey
en Oh my effing god thank you
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