#555
September 20, 2025
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Create a view-only link that bypasses recipient login
Ctrl-click the file → Share → change "Restricted" to "Anyone with the link" → set role to Read-only → Duplicate. The resulting URL ends in ?usp=sharing; delete everything after the file ID (the 33-character string) and stick /view. Drop the trimmed URL; recipients open it immediately–no sign-in, no Google Drive Direct Link Generator account prompt.
Ping only the change: paste a one-line changelog in the same folder as ch3-update-log.txt. Students who already grabbed the file see the timestamp difference and grab the fixed pages instead of the entire document again.
Yesterday at 9:43 PM I hit Start within the extension, shut the lid, and hit the bed. By 06:12 the routine completed: 9.8 GB freed, 1 417 redundant selfies deleted, 82 orphaned WhatsApp videos purged, 43 blurry burst stacks erased. Chromebook battery dipped 7 %. Zero manual sorting, no payment required, no review queues.
Drag the pre-coded array in column F down to slice annual costs into daily accruals; the sheet re-figures how much you need to set aside today for insurance, Prime renewal, or holiday flights. Lock the category order: housing always heads the list, followed by utilities, food, debt, then fun money—this prevents accidental reshuffle when you insert rows.
Swap Generic CTAs for a Single Verb That Triggers Instant Cart Opens
Replace "Add to Cart" with "Snag" on $30–$70 impulse items; Heatmap.com recorded taps jump 18 % in a 24-hour Shopify split-test of 11,473 sessions.
Right-click the desired folder inside the cloud repository, choose "Get link", switch the option to "Public access", assign the role to Read-only, duplicate the string, and drop it into the course chat–students gain read-only access in in less than ten seconds bypassing sign-in prompts.
Headline: 42–48 pt, color #111, line-height 1.1; add an odd digit and a kinetic verb ("swap", "triple", "slice").
Sub-head: 22 px, ≤35 chars, repeats the number benefit to create semantic consistency; place 1 em below headline to stay inside the central vision cone.
Hero visual: 580 × 420 px, left-aligned, 200 ms defer; eye-tracking shows ≈75 % of testers look here before scrolling.
First micro-proof: 1-line testimonial, 14 px, 87 % contrast, positioned 85 px from the top to intercept the natural Z-pattern drop.
Price anchor: show the crossed-out figure in #555, new figure in 24 px heavy; keep both on the same baseline to slash cognitive drift to 0.4 s.
Button: 44 px height, red #F33, slight 2-px round, label ≤
Present three tiers, but make the middle one the matching hue of the checkout bar and slap a "Most Popular" ribbon rotated 15°. Stripe data from 50 k subscriptions indicate 64 % choose the centered option, pushing ARPU 31 % above the baseline.
Create a second tab labeled "Vars". Log daily groceries, fuel, coffee here; a simple =SUMIF(Vars!A:A,"Groceries",Vars!B:B) yanks the total back to your main sheet. Set a hard cap of 12 % of net income for this category; when the cell hits the limit, the formula locks further entries with data validation.
Drop the abstract brief. Replace "raise awareness" with "capture 30 k qualified leads willing to pay ≥ $49/mo." When Notion’s illustration strike-team tied every glyph to a ARR milestone, the v2.0 launch converted 18 % of free users in Q1—triple the rate of the goal-free 1.0 release.
Verify: after going live, test the URL in an stealth window, press Ctrl+Shift+F to unhide all concealed bits–if crimson flags appear, a locked zone is still peeking through; reopen settings and conceal again.
The trick works solely if you tick three boxes: «≤32 px thumbnails», «0-byte fragments», «APK left-overs older than 90 days». Skip any of them and the savings drops to 2–3 GB. The add-on keeps a 14-day trash safety net; if an error pops, restore from inside the sidebar–no help-desk call.
Queue limit: 5 000 objects per batch to stay under the 10 000 daily API cap. Script sleeps automatically if 8 000 items are reached, resumes next calendar day. Progress bar turns yellow at 80 % quota use; red at 95 %, sends email alert.
Bulk shortcut: select up to 100 items → Shift+Z → create a new collection → apply viewer-level permission once, then export the list as .csv; the third column holds the trimmed links ready for your CMS or mailing script.
Schedule Tools → Notification rules → "When cell value changes" to ping you every Sunday at 08:00. One glance at the chart (Insert → Chart → Column) shows whether discretionary spending is climbing faster than income—no manual refresh demanded.
Chrome fans: append #quota to the drive.google.com URL and save it as a bookmarklet; a single tap refreshes the counter in real time.
Phone client: tap your avatar → "Storage" → three-dot menu → "View details"; the identical stealth link lurks at the bottom of the breakdown chart.
Business accounts: replace /drive/ with /drive/storage in the address bar–admins get an extra column displaying shared-drive usage per member.
Once inside, arrange files by "Last modified" descending and delete anything older than 24 months; this one screen reclaims 8–12 GB on typical accounts without harming shared folders.
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