You can search your history, and my favorite, you can even see your History from other devices (where you’re logged into Chrome under the same account). If you click on History, you’re taken to your complete Chrome History, where you can see all sites visited over time, organized by date. When you hover over History, a drop-down of about 8 of your most recent sites visited will appear. Chrome History is located in the Chrome menu, found when you click on the 3 dots (or snowman, as some call it) in the upper-right corner of your window.
Reopen closed tab isn’t efficient because you’ve been to countless tabs since yesterday. Let’s say you’re looking for a site you visited yesterday. Speaking of Chrome history…this leads me to my next hack perfectly: Chrome History (and on multiple devices!). I use it all the time! Hack #2: Chrome History (on multiple devices!) It’s a super handy feature and can save loads of time. But wait, there’s more! This feature has a history to it, so if you go and right-click and click “Reopen Closed Tab” again, Chrome will open the second-to-last tab that has been closed…and so on. Right-click, then click “Reopen Closed Tab” and voila! Chrome will open the most recently closed tab for you, in just two clicks. So if you were already familiar, I want to be sure you don’t freak out, thinking it’s gone (like I did).Īll you need to do to quickly reopen any tab you’ve closed is to right-click on a blank space on your tab bar in Chrome (see screenshot). I’m starting with this hack since it is always a favorite in my sessions, and this Chrome option recently moved. Speaking of learning from others, have you ever worked so hard to get to a certain webpage (go to this site, click here, scroll, hover, then click…), only to accidentally hit that pesky “x” on the right of the Chrome tab and lose it all? It can be so frustrating! But oh so easily fixed. Be sure to get to the end for a bonus hack! I may have saved one of my favorites for last. I have chosen 7 of my favorite simple, yet powerful Google hacks to share with you to save you time and make your life easier. We all need to do anything we can to make our lives easier. They save time and make my life easier, so I use them whenever I can.Īnd the more I talk with other educators, they’re in the same boat: time is precious. I love learning big ideas from others, but I swear, often times my biggest ah-ha moments are when I watch someone else use a hack to save time. One of my absolute favorite things about watching others teach is to see different ways things can be done.