Google Drive Walkthrough for Small Business Operators

Remove every parameter after /edit first; lingering usp=sharing or export=download wrecks the trick.
Check in an private tab: if the preview page appears instead of the copy dialog, the suffix is still wrong.
Store the finished string in a snippet tool (iOS shortcut) so typing :ccopy fires the corrected pattern.

Require bulk conversion? Dump up to a full column into column A of a sheet, enter =SUBSTITUTE(A1,"/edit?usp=sharing","/copy") in B1, and drag down. Export column B as CSV and import it into your LMS tool.

Need 50 URLs at once? In create Google Drive direct link, highlight the folder → Shift+Z → "Add to shared drive" → launch Colab → run gdown --folder "id-string" → paste the tiny gist from the public gist. The terminal spits out every hyperlink with "?usp=sharing" already appended; batch time drops from 18 min of manual clicking to 22 s.

Merge it with &slide=id.p1 to pin the start slide and &autoStart=false to stop autoplay. One clean string does the job: paste it into Slack, Notion, or any LMS; recipients land direct in full-screen mode on any device. Want switch back? Nuke the parameter and reload–zip re-push required.



Metric No-pause day Ultradian day


Bug-free code lines / hour 42 67

Error rate (%) 8,3 3.1
Perceived tiredness (1–10) 7.80 4.20

Carry a mini notebook; capture any image or fix that pops during the 90-second gaze. ≈4 out of 5 of volunteers in a 2022 U.C. Berkeley trial reported no fewer than one monetizable concept within two weeks of zealous adherence.
Mute all notifications for the full 90-minute work block; the average cognitive tax of a single phone buzz is half a second lost attention plus twenty-three seconds reorientation. Over a quartet that equals a quarter-hour of pure focus reclaimed.
Close the day with a 180-second cold shower at fifteen Celsius to slash cortisol by almost a fifth and lock the day’s new neural links during the next 7-hour sleep window.
Keep a Voice Recorder by the Bed for Middle-of-the-night Hypnagogic Downloads
Set your phone to airplane mode, open the voice-memo app, and thumb-record a fifteen-second whisper describing the image, phrase, or melody that just surfaced. EEG findings from MIT (two years pre-pandemic) show the hypnagogic window lasts under half a minute; after that, hippocampal replay plummets to 40 %.
Stash the recorder within a forearm’s stretch–never on the far corner. Muscle memory beats groggy navigation: a recent University of Salzburg trial found a thumb-span reach raised recall probability from 34 % to 78 %.
Stamp each clip on the spot: speak the date first–"Jun-12-03:14"–then the content. Two weeks later you will have a query-ready log; participants who ignored the tag lost 45 % of usable fragments.
Limit playback until noon. Morning theta levels are still spiked; re-exposure before coffee taints pure retrieval with conscious editing, cutting originality scores (Torrance test) by 22 %.

At each junction point—alley to trees, trees to dock—pause, lean on the handiest surface, and write a 5-word sensory cue on the top card: "odor of burnt rubber," "leaves sound rain." Stick to five words; brevity keeps prefrontal filters dim.



Open whatever calendar you already use and lock in an hour and a half starting at 7:30 a.m.. Label the block "deep batch". During those ninety kill every device, shut every tab except the solo file you must advance, and keep a sticky note stack to the right of the keyboard; each time an random thought appears, dump it on the sheet and snap back to the file. Stanford attention-switching data (2022) show this cut recovery time from almost half an hour to four minutes per interruption.
At nine sharp push your chair back, start a 120-second timer, and sort the scribbled sheet: items needing under two minutes are done immediately, the rest drop straight into three labelled columns–this-day, 7-day, maybe. No second pass. People who followed this micro-routine for 14 days regained an hour-plus daily (RescueTime cohort, n = 1,800).
Replace the default phone alarm with a stealth alert delivered at 21:00 sharp; the text should list the three outputs you will produce before 12 p.m. next day. Behavioral-design lab at UCL found that external cueing raised next-day completion rates from fifty-eight percent to 91 % without increasing total hours worked. Keep the list tiny: "send revised slide deck," "OK the bills," "film quick Loom"–never categories like "marketing" or "admin."
Set a 15-Minute Morning Slot to Pick the Must-Win Trio Must-Win Tasks
Reserve quarter-to-seven window, airplane-mode phone, open blank paper. List every open loop in a single column–no filter. Count lines: if over a dozen, axe low-impact items until only 3 remain. Star the survivors; these are the day’s must-dos.
Assign each starred item a 90-minute calendar block before 12 p.m.. Color-code: crimson for sales, blue for customer ship, emerald for dev tweak. Share screenshot with teammate in Slack #daily-3–public pledge raises follow-through to seventy-six percent (Gartner, 2023).
If a task needs over an hour-half, halve: define deliverable at 45-min mark, save file as "draft_0830", send to stakeholder. This stops scope swell and keeps block intact.
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Maintain Just one Capture In-tray and Clear It at 11 a.m. and 16:00 to Crush Ad-Hoc Mess

Assign a lone physical in-tray—A4 format, left of your keyboard—and a mirror digital folder titled "INBOX" at the top of your cloud drive. Each loose jotting, receipt, voice memo, or email you can’t immediately act on plops there; anywhere else.