Build a visual gallery via Google Drive direct URLs
Finally, park a “no-context” buffer of 6 % total hours in every timeline. When WarnerMedia injected this rule across 14 concurrent video shoots, they absorbed three force-majeure location changes without budging delivery once. That 6 % costs less than one overtime weekend and scores you calm stakeholders.
If the “Get link” panel stops offer the old toggle, glue &usp=sharing by hand to the address bar while the item is open, refresh , then redo the swap above. This strong-arms the back-end to pump the 2019-style permalink.
Self-refresh for any year. Substitute every literal 2024 in formulas with YEAR(TODAY()). Create dropdown in A1 of a driver tab: Data → Data validation → List → 2023,2024,2025…. Use it with INDIRECT(“Control!A1”) inside the initial DATE() call. Switching the dropdown rebuilds the entire grid and refreshes week numbers on-the-fly.
Want a instant play button? Swap /document/d/ with /uc?export=view&id= and tack &acknowledge=t . Inject that combo inside Notion ; the preview auto-expands and pipes straight from the cloud – no wrapper , no access-denied, ignores quota wall.
Morph Drive Video Links into One-Click Thumbnails for Notion
Slam the cloud-hosted MP4 link into a Notion embed block , glue /preview , and swap the file-ID path with stream?id= to force an instant player. Example :
Generate Direct Links for Any Google Drive File in 30 Seconds
Copy the public link, drop it into Direct Link Generator For Google Drive, hit “Convert”, snag the bare URL that pops –done . The wizard swaps /document/d/ with /uc?id= and shaves everything after the ID, turning https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AbC/view?usp=sharing into https://drive.usercontent.google.com/uc?id=1AbC . Embed the new string into any iframe src and the resource appears without the Google-branded page.
Morph Messy Brain-Dumps into a 30-Minute Affinity Diagram
Crank a 25-minute timer. Spray every idea, fact, complaint, risk, or feature onto 76 mm × 127 mm sticky notes—one thought per note, max seven words. Shoot for 60–90 notes; quantity beats polish.
Program a 7 a.m. automation that sends you a PDF export of rows where label equals “queued” and publish date equals today(); the code needs 11 lines of code and runs on free accounts. Insert the same script into a second trigger that fires every Monday at 9 a.m. to move rows older than 45 days into the Storage tab, keeping the working sheet below 500 rows so filter speed stays under one second on mobile.
Next, craft a date-driven overlay that grays out any past-due item. Drop =AND(E2<"Live") as a brand-new rule, paint charcoal fill #3B3B3B and bold white text. Park this rule at the summit of the list; order is king because the first matching condition trumps. Items will auto-switch to charcoal when the go-live date in column E is overdue, giving you an blink-and-you-see-it red-flag.
Finish by activating an Apps Script (provided inside the template) that sends a Slack ping 15 minutes before each scheduled Reel; the message includes the caption, raw file link, and suggested song ID fetched from Spotify’s top 50 viral hits. No log-ins, no paid tools–just a minimal workbook that turns engagement stats into daily posts sooner than your coffee brews.
Original share link
Direct render URL
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aB2cD3eF4gH5iJ6kL7mN8oP9qR0sT1uV/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1aB2cD3eF4gH5iJ6kL7mN8oP9qR0sT1uV
Append ?alt=media to trigger a raw download rather than the viewer frame; this preserves local paths intact for stylesheets and scripts stored in the same folder.
Plant Clickable Drive Images into Gmail Sans Attachments
Snag the public link of the image stored in your Drive vault , change the final /edit?usp=sharing to /export?format=png , and slam that hacked URL inside a Gmail draft . Highlight the entire link , press Ctrl-K, and replace the visible text with a short call-to-action such as ” HD poster “. The picture now embeds natively , lives on the Google CDN, and every recipient who taps the anchor lands on the full-res file with zero friction–no 25 MB quota consumed.
Throttle guard: wrap the formula in IF(ISERROR(IMPORTDATA(..)),”retry”,IMPORTDATA(..)) and cap ten rows max per request. Schedule a 2-minute Apps Script trigger to copy values → paste as text in a backup range; this saves numbers for historical comparison and skips quota overruns (API free tier = 100 calls/day).
Auto-Fill Post Dates with a 5-Column Date Formula
Place the first Monday of the
Throw on a red-amber-green setup to the Status column so you can spot bottlenecks in under half a second per row. Grab the entire Status range (say D2:D100), fire up Format › Conditional formatting, switch to “Custom formula is”, and punch in =D2=”Live”. Paint background #00B04F and font #FFFFFF. Add two more rules: =D2=”Review” with #FF9C2A and #000000; =D2=”Paused” with #C41230 and #FFFFFF. Check “Done” and shield the range via Data › Protected ranges so rookies can’t overwrite the colors.