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ineptshieldmaid reblogged your post and added:
Another relevant function: you can’t sort by most…
I can’t… make that triangle appear next to the search term in the search bar like in your screenshot. All I get is an X, to clear the entry, or nothing if the search field is blank. Because those seem like really cool things to be able to sort by, but I cannot make that whole, I don’t know what it’s called, panorama of exciting options come up (field? meadow?) to let me refine my search.
(I assume that whole… it’s not a field. The fields are the individual thingies where you can input stuff. Meadow? Chunk. Of window. Thing. would be called Advanced Search Options in like, any program. I can’t access that from the search bar. In a regular program it would probably be in one of the menus at the top but since I’m in Chrome all the menus at the top refer to the program, not the page I’m on. So I honestly am completely baffled as to how to access any advanced search options if there’s no shortcut to it from within the search function itself. Fuck, I’m having a really bad brain-word day and I don’t know what to call things and this is really getting to me, I sound like some sort of ignorant moron, I swear I know what things are called usually.)
HOWEVER. I would have been wrong anyway, because just searching every Google Doc I’ve ever written for a fairly common English word, as it happens, eventually turned up the document in question, which was not edited within the last week at all, which would explain why I remember it so poorly and also why it wasn’t with anything I did this week.
So, I found it, but not by any intelligent means. Sigh.
I also do seem to have an option to sort recent documents by “last modified by me”, as opposed to “last opened”, so that’s… something?
I can’t figure out how to get the window you showed with the two panes to get the detail and info views of an individual file, either…
Ohhhh if you access all of this through the Drive app, you can get to those things. I don’t, though, because by default Drive shows me documents that were shared with me years ago and I have to search in order to find the things i worked on recently. I use all of this by going into Documents, which just shows me my documents. But doesn’t let me actually search them at all.
(Drive also won’t load on my work computer, but Documents will, so I have completely abandoned using the Drive [missing noun] ever at all, and forgot that it was different from Documents.)
(BUT WHY IS IT DIFFERENT. Why can’t Documents’ search interface have the little triangle next to it???? Why not???? Why do I HAVE to remember that there’s a whole separate [missing noun] that lets you search things, if I want to search my documents under more than one criterion? Why does it have to work like that?)
Yeah, in there there’s search options. Wow I can’t believe I just wasted like twenty minutes of my life trying to use Drive through Documents.
I also can’t fucking believe those are entirely separate – word, I don’t have a word. Well. Things. The documents are in both places at once, and accessible in both places at once, but. App? Program? Interface. I don’t know.
I am having a day of bad brain function and this all seems to slot very neatly into portions of my brain that are currently offline.
At least I found it.
ineptshieldmaid reblogged your post and added:
Another relevant function: you can’t sort by most…
I can’t… make that triangle appear next to the search term in the search bar like in your screenshot. All I get is an X, to clear the entry, or nothing if the search field is blank. Because those seem like really cool things to be able to sort by, but I cannot make that whole, I don’t know what it’s called, panorama of exciting options come up (field? meadow?) to let me refine my search.
(I assume that whole… it’s not a field. The fields are the individual thingies where you can input stuff. Meadow? Chunk. Of window. Thing. would be called Advanced Search Options in like, any program. I can’t access that from the search bar. In a regular program it would probably be in one of the menus at the top but since I’m in Chrome all the menus at the top refer to the program, not the page I’m on. So I honestly am completely baffled as to how to access any advanced search options if there’s no shortcut to it from within the search function itself. Fuck, I’m having a really bad brain-word day and I don’t know what to call things and this is really getting to me, I sound like some sort of ignorant moron, I swear I know what things are called usually.)
HOWEVER. I would have been wrong anyway, because just searching every Google Doc I’ve ever written for a fairly common English word, as it happens, eventually turned up the document in question, which was not edited within the last week at all, which would explain why I remember it so poorly and also why it wasn’t with anything I did this week.
So, I found it, but not by any intelligent means. Sigh.
I also do seem to have an option to sort recent documents by “last modified by me”, as opposed to “last opened”, so that’s… something?
I can’t figure out how to get the window you showed with the two panes to get the detail and info views of an individual file, either…
Ohhhh if you access all of this through the Drive app, you can get to those things. I don’t, though, because by default Drive shows me documents that were shared with me years ago and I have to search in order to find the things i worked on recently. I use all of this by going into Documents, which just shows me my documents. But doesn’t let me actually search them at all.
(Drive also won’t load on my work computer, but Documents will, so I have completely abandoned using the Drive [missing noun] ever at all, and forgot that it was different from Documents.)
(BUT WHY IS IT DIFFERENT. Why can’t Documents’ search interface have the little triangle next to it???? Why not???? Why do I HAVE to remember that there’s a whole separate [missing noun] that lets you search things, if I want to search my documents under more than one criterion? Why does it have to work like that?)
Yeah, in there there’s search options. Wow I can’t believe I just wasted like twenty minutes of my life trying to use Drive through Documents.
I also can’t fucking believe those are entirely separate – word, I don’t have a word. Well. Things. The documents are in both places at once, and accessible in both places at once, but. App? Program? Interface. I don’t know.
I am having a day of bad brain function and this all seems to slot very neatly into portions of my brain that are currently offline.
At least I found it.
