Hello everyone my name is Adriana and I'm a growth trainer here at Growth
Tribe. As growth marketeers we love to reduce waste and work faster, so today I
want to show you a number of Google Chrome hidden gems that will boost your
productivity. We'll start with an easy hack that I use on a daily basis. Since
I'm not a big mouse user I always scroll down faster by pressing the spacebar and
then scroll back up by pressing the shift and the spacebar together. If you
are sick of getting those annoying pop-ups asking if you want to receive
any notifications you can turn those entirely off by following this easy
process. There you will find the option for
notifications that you just need to switch off and that's it. If you download
a file and you want to move it somewhere specific, you can drag and drop
it from the download bar directly onto your desktop or in any other folder. You
can also drag and drop files from Chrome's download bar directly into your
online service such as Google Drive or Gmail. Now, if you ever close a tab by
mistake - hit ctrl or command shift T to reopen your most recently closed tabs.
By the way, you can also do this multiple times if there's more than one tab that
you want to recover. Are you looking for a website that's down, or do you want to
see how a page look like a while ago, type this into your Chrome's address bar
and replace page.com with whatever URL you want to search for. And now for one
of my favorite and most helpful hacks, you can just copy paste this snippet of
code into your Chrome's address bar and drag the link into your bookmark bar and
voila you now have your own one-click scratch pad. Write your thoughts directly
into your browser - no extension required. You can also easily drag and drop images
in there. Want to open a link in a new tab without interrupting your current
session? Then hold out ctrl or command and click it, to open the link in a whole
new window you shift-click instead. If you wanna save a link just drag it up
into your Chrome's bookmark bar or wherever you want in your bookmark
category. Another easy one is checking the back button in Chrome's upper left
corner, it does a lot more than you might think, click it and hold your mouse
button down and you'll get a pop-up history of all the recent pages you
viewed within your current tab. Also, if you're like me and have a bunch of tabs
open and you want to save the entire session for later just hit ctrl shift D
and you will save all your open tabs into one folder. To restore them
right-click the folder within your bookmark and select open all or open all
in a new window. The history page is also super helpful when you want to see your
last viewings from all devices, and it has a very easy shortcut ctrl or command
Y. Privacy is a top concern now, so if you want to leave no trail when you navigate
simply open Chrome settings, click advanced, then click privacy and security
and turn on the toggle next to send a do not tag requests with your browsing traffic.
This is turned off by default so turning it on will eliminate some of the cookie
tracking and invasion from the ad networks. So for another favorite of mine
now you can quiet annoying sites once and for all, by right-clicking their tabs
where the title is displayed and selecting mute site. This recently added
option will prevent the site from playing any audio on your computer any
time you visit it again. If you want to copy paste text without its original
formatting you just have to hit ctrl or command shift V to strip all the
formatting away. If sometimes you find Chrome mysteriously acting strange type
this in to your crumbs address bar and your browser will restart itself and
restore all your tabs and windows in an instant. Chrome extensions can be
extremely useful but they can also create a lot of disorder in your
browser's upper right corner. You can hide the extension icons if you don't
need them by right-clicking them and selecting hide in chrome menu after just
open the main chrome menu and you'll see all the hidden icons there. While we're
talking extensions you can create custom keyboard shortcuts, try typing this link
into your browser's address bar to setup your own extension shortcuts. As the last
point run custom search engine feature has a lot of untapped productivity
potential. So open up Chrome settings click on manage search engines, then
click the add command next to the other search engine. For example, you can open
up your scratch pad presented before by simply typing SP in the keywords section
and the code in the URL section. This is it for the video, thanks for watching and
please remember to subscribe and comment below with your
favorite google chrome hack!
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