This productivity extension will give you quick access to your favorite Google tools from any webpage.
I want to thank Marc Clendaniel for showing me this extension. If you have not added any extensions to your Google account, this would be a good one try. Black Menu is a productivity extension, so its main role is to help you do things faster and easier.
What does it do?
Black Menu is an extension, so once added, it lives in the upper right corner of your browser. That means it is always available on any webpage you visit. Black Menu is a drop down menu that has a customizable list of Google Apps. It will give you the ability to use the app from within the menu itself without leaving the page you are visiting.
Black Menu is an extension, so once added, it lives in the upper right corner of your browser. That means it is always available on any webpage you visit. Black Menu is a drop down menu that has a customizable list of Google Apps. It will give you the ability to use the app from within the menu itself without leaving the page you are visiting.
What Google Apps are available?
Black Menu comes with some of the common apps already listed, but you are able to add ANY Google App that you want to the menu. You can also remove any apps that you feel you don’t use enough to have listed in the initial menu. But the nice thing is that ALL the apps are available from the “Search Google Shortcuts” area.
Black Menu comes with some of the common apps already listed, but you are able to add ANY Google App that you want to the menu. You can also remove any apps that you feel you don’t use enough to have listed in the initial menu. But the nice thing is that ALL the apps are available from the “Search Google Shortcuts” area.
Samples of things you can do:
Here is a quick list of some of the things you can do with Black Menu.
Here is a quick list of some of the things you can do with Black Menu.
- Easily add your other Google accounts to the menu. This makes it easy to bounce back and forth between your personal account and your school account.
- Change the order of the apps to put the ones you use most often at the top of the menu.
- Remove apps from the main menu that you don’t use.
- Add apps to the main menu that you do use (i.e. Google Classroom)
- Do a Google Search from within the menu. This keeps you from going back to the Google homepage to do a search.
- Gives you quick access to your Google drive AND quick access to creating new Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Forms all from within the menu.
This video shows how to add Black Menu as well as demonstrates how the items listed above work.
You can view the video [Here].
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