Simplify Docs
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Description from extension meta
Makes Google Docs a little simplier
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Simplify Docs – right now, all it does is hide the new inline @ button.
Latest reviews
- Tom Barclay
- 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!
- Josh Estes
- 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!"
- Dimes
- 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.
- Don Morton
- I Love You!!!!! :)
- Katie Dozier
- Hooray--this works! Thank you so much; the "@" made googledocs unusable for me.
- Mark Bank
- 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.
- Linsey
- Finally I can focus without that stupid @ ruining everything I'm trying to write. Thank you for this life saviour.
- Justin Currie
- Thank f-ing god. this thing was killing my writing flow.
- Matt Kelsey
- Oh my effing god thank you
- Melissa Cassick
- My characters stopped speaking and stared at it with each new paragraph. You saved their lives.
- Vesuvius00
- Thank you! - writers everywhere
- Isabel Gamble
- bless you
- Joaquín Castro Valdez
- I love you.
- Richard Lytton
- This extension really works. Thank you to whoever wrote the code for this extension.
- JeniLynn Rochelle
- Thank you so very much for this small, but deeply meaningful gift you've given the world. My focus and my sanity are very grateful.
- Holly Lefebvre
- TG, this fixed it! This feature should be an option and not forced on us. Hope Google gets the message ppl are going to be polarized on loving or hating it and they need a disabling option.
- Jayne Rose
- Fixed the issue. I really wish Google would keep things simple as all their pop up suggestions are rage inducing and unnecessary.
- Kev H (Swisskev)
- Thank you, that was essential to my sanity.
- John Pena
- Perfect. Thank you.
- michael rinaldi
- perfect. hated the little @ sign.
- Mike Hutchinson
- Thank you for making this. I write books in Google docs, I don't need it to suggest that I insert calendar events on every carriage return.
- Jacqueline McCleary
- Oh my god, thank you thank you thank you for releasing this. This stupid @ symbol, which *cannot be disabled*, is one of the worst features Google Docs has ever rolled out and was driving me to distraction. This extension does exactly what it says it does.
- Malie Lalor
- Thank you, thank you, thank you
- # “Recon777”
- "right now, all it does is hide the new inline @ button" Please, this is enough. No need to add more features that people may not like. But if you do, allow people to switch off your fixes individually. Removing the '@' is perfect.
- Jan Bednarczuk
- thank you, it's bananas that Google didn't include a setting to turn this off.
- Eric Müller
- Wow, thanks! Finally get rid of the annoying cursor. I wonder how many % of the world's gdocs users think the same.
- Ben Palmer
- Thank you!!!
- Jonathan Say
- works!
- Gabe Meline
- May God smite down the unholy wickedness of man that is the Google Doc ampersand
- Duane Nason
- Thank you! It works great.
- Rachel Levine
- Does what it says, supper annoying that Google added this feature w/out an option to turn off. Thanks!
- Ben Warheit
- does what it says
- Mander Zander
- How did the Google Docs user testing lead do Google adding such an annoying "feature" that you can't turn off? Thank you for this extension.
- Icy Panther
- Not to be dramatic, but this saved my sanity. Thank you times a million.
- Tim Keenan
- I echo other users. The @ symbol on every newline completely distracts me from my thoughts. I adore google docs and that 'feature' would force me to find/use other solutions. Now I'm back to life before Google's version of the Microsoft Word paperclip.
- Midnight Sun
- That persistent @ symbol was driving me nuts. Huge thanks to the dev for providing this solution! Without this extension I would have had to stop using google docs, wasn't looking forward to finding an alternative.