Books, Productivity, and Design
If you are a YouTuber (or for any other reason), you may want to check other YouTube channels to see what videos did well for them. Preferably, even download list of YouTube videos’ metadata for researching deeply.
We can do that by going to any channel and sort their videos by popularity.
Simple.
But what if you want to download the list of YouTube videos’ metadata such as:
[Read more…] about Easy way to Download List of YouTube Videos Metadata from ANY YouTube Channel (FREE)If you are from the world of Microsoft Word users, inserting date/time is a cakewalk – and you know that already.
But in Google Docs, there is no straight-forward way to insert date or time into our Google Docs file.
To do that, we need to use the Google’s in-built Script Editor.
Let’s begin, and by the end of this blog post, you’d be able to simply click on a menu item to insert your current date or time, or even date in the long date format.
One quick note before we begin – here’s a video version of this blog post in case you wanted to see a quick (< 3 min) demo of how to insert date or time into your Google Docs file.
If the video didn’t play or you need more instructions, you can continue reading…
After you open your blank Google Docs file (remember this script works only on your current document, not on all your Docs files), go to Tools > Script Editor.
A blank ‘Untitled project’ opens with the Code.gs file ready to be edited.
You can simply remove all the existing code (nothing but an empty function).
Now go to my GitHub Gist (simply click the link to open in a new tab auto-magically) to copy and paste this code snippet into your Code.gs (script editor) OR alternatively simply copy and paste from the code below.
That’s all – you’ll now see a new menu called ‘Utilities‘ and three new menu items within that menu – one for each of the following:
Hope you like this updated version of the code snippet.
Thank you, and I will see you again in another useful blog post just like this one.
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If you ever wanted to convert your image file with lots of text in it to a document, without installing any software – you can use Google docs to do that for you in a matter of just seconds.
Here’s how to do that.
Step 1: Simply drag your image file that has text in it to your Google drive.
Step 2: Then right click on your image file and select “open with > Google Docs”.
This converts your image into text format.
You’ll see that your image got automatically converted into
You’ll also notice that the image is placed at the beginning of your document, so you can either choose to leave it there or delete it from your document.
Now if you want to save it into Word or any other formats like PDF, TXT – you can do that by clicking on the File menu, Download as and then choose your option.