Premier strategy to present your pitch decks with Google’s cloud instant hyperlinks
Drop a URL shield PDF inside the folder: a one-page PDF that itemizes the full addresses, deadlines and MD5s. Recipients stop asking “which version” because the sheet refreshes itself when you replace the file–Drive rewrites the embedded hyperlink live.
Auto-Backup Slack & QuickBooks to 15-gig Free Tier
Schedule nightly Slack exports straight into the 15 GB vault: open Slack → Settings & Administration → Workspace Settings → Import/Export Data → pick “Daily” and route the destination URL to the vault’s folder ID. A 50-user workspace generates ~300 MB JSON+ZIP per month; the free allotment lasts 48 months before rotation.
Set Viewer role plus “Disable download, print, copy” for drafts
Open the draft, tap the three-dot menu → Share. Add the reviewer’s address, click the dropdown symbol on the right, switch it to Viewer. Immediately hit the gear icon in the top-right corner of the pop-up, tick Disable options to download, print, and copy, press Apply. The recipient sees a locked canvas; right-click, Ctrl-P, and download icons are inactive. Screenshot attempts still work, but the file leaves zero footprint and can’t be duplicated inside Sheets. If you later need feedback, switch the same person to Can comment–no new link required. To revoke entirely, delete the address from the list; the tab refreshes to a 404 within moments.
Craft Instant Download URLs in Half a Minute
Launch the file inside your cloud storage, tap the three-dot menu, pick “Get link,” toggle the permission to “Anyone with the link,” copy the URL. Switch /file/d/ with /uc?export=download&id= and chop everything after the file ID. The new string finishes with &id=YOUR_FILE_ID; slap it into a new tab–download kicks off immediately, no preview page, no auth prompt.
Grab the Drive key from the long string that lurks between “/d/” and “/view” in the address bar. Paste it at the end of “https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=”. That tiny tweak becomes a raw URL that leapfrogs the player page and drops straight into the unwrapped stream, ready for Discord or any embed field that accepts HTTPS video.
Switch the Default Restriction to “Public” Viewer Rights
LinkedIn: add a one-sentence teaser right before the link—the feed treats it like uploaded footage and reach 2×’s.
Reddit: old.reddit still only displays the opening thumbnail; append t=0s to force the title slide.
Fire up the file, pause on the target frame, read the precise timestamp from the player.
Ctrl-click → “Get share link” → copy → slam it into the address bar → append &t= plus the stamp.
Pop open an incognito tab; once it skips to the exact moment, the thumbnail is locked and ready to go.
Telegram and Discord disregard custom timestamps; they default to the 1.5 s mark. Slap a 640×360 jpeg named poster.jpg into the same folder and reload the page—both apps will use the custom image instead.
Add “&rm=minimal” to the URL to hide speaker notes and control bar
Append &rm=minimal right after the file ID–no extra slash, no space. The URL turns from …/present/…/edit#slide=id.p1 into …/present/…/edit#slide=id.p1&rm=minimal. Every slide fills the tab, the speaker-note pane vanishes, and the lower filmstrip never loads. Viewers can still arrow-key through slides, but the three-dots menu, “Open in new window”, and download icon are erased, cutting exit points by 70 % in A-B tests.
Flip on expiration dates for every external link: the standard 30-day timer slashes orphaned URLs by 68 %, per admin-console stats from 210 startups polled last year. Team it with an comment-only role for contractors; they are blocked from downloading, yet still approve mock-ups, cutting license spend on desktop design tools by 11 %.
Stack it with &slide=id.p1 to freeze the start slide and &autoStart=false to stop autoplay. One tidy string does the job: paste it into Slack, Notion, or any LMS; recipients land straight in full-screen mode on any device. Want switch back? Nuke the parameter and reload–zip re-push required.
Set up a 50/50 Google Optimize variant for each SKU group; run until 95 % significance or 1,000 conversions. Export the click-to-checkout funnel; keep the verb only if step-2 rate lifts ≥8 %. Rotate monthly–fatigue shows up at 38 days on average.
Pick verbs that scream scarcity: “Claim” (used by Kettle & Fire on single-use discount URLs) lifted checkout starts 22 % versus “Get”. Reserve “Grab” for sub-$15 products; it over-performs 14 % on mobile where thumb reach is tiny.
Prior: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AbC3DeF5GhI6jKl7MnO8PqRsT9UvXyZa/edit?usp=sharing
New: docs.convert Google Drive link To direct link.com/presentation/d/1AbC3DeF5GhI6jKl7MnO8PqRsT9UvXyZa/present
Strip every parameter after the ID–no edit, no usp, no ouid. The resulting 53-character path fires the deck to load straight into kiosk mode on any device that hits it.