About a month back at Google I/O, we were promised to get new Homescreens for Google's Office suite products. Now if you visit Google Docs, Sheets or Slides, you'll be presented with the all new Material design Homescreen.
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Previously when you opened those web apps, you were directly presented to the editor. But If you wanted to see your documents, you'd have to browse through all your Google Drive folders. But now with these new homescreens, whenever you open any of these web apps, you'll be presented with all your recent documents, or spreadsheets or presentations in one place. But you can still easily create new documents by hitting that big + button on the bottom right of any page.
These new Homescreens also allow to quickly switch to other apps. Just hit it and choose from Docs, Sheets or Slides. You can go to your Drive too. These resembles very much with Android counterparts. There's also an overflow menu button just like in Android that'll allow you to rename, remove or open in a new tab.
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But on a sad note, these new changes brought new bugs. I was trying to get my documents to these new Homescreens but I'm out of luck. Trying to open them from Drive also was no good. Also when I go to Google Drive, I just get a glimpse of my files and folders and then they all disappear and are replaced by a drawing showing different devices and a text saying I can access my stuff on every device.
Hope this is just a minor bug that hasn't affected more people. Because more and more people have started relying on Google's free and evolving Office Suite. And throwing a major bug on professionals' faces wouldn't be a good for Google.
Update: The files disappearing bug seems to be already resolved.
Previously when you opened those web apps, you were directly presented to the editor. But If you wanted to see your documents, you'd have to browse through all your Google Drive folders. But now with these new homescreens, whenever you open any of these web apps, you'll be presented with all your recent documents, or spreadsheets or presentations in one place. But you can still easily create new documents by hitting that big + button on the bottom right of any page.
These new Homescreens also allow to quickly switch to other apps. Just hit it and choose from Docs, Sheets or Slides. You can go to your Drive too. These resembles very much with Android counterparts. There's also an overflow menu button just like in Android that'll allow you to rename, remove or open in a new tab.
Hope this is just a minor bug that hasn't affected more people. Because more and more people have started relying on Google's free and evolving Office Suite. And throwing a major bug on professionals' faces wouldn't be a good for Google.
Update: The files disappearing bug seems to be already resolved.
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