Open up the Drive app on Android and find any file or even folder that you tend to pull up often from your phone. So for our first example, let's start with Google Drive. This possibility tends to be present in productivity apps where you're dealing with lots of individual documents, files, or other such items. But it's a tough concept to convey without just walking through a real-world example - so let's do that, shall we? That may be the most confusing sentence I've ever written, I realize. With specific Android apps, y'see, you can create your own custom shortcuts to individual items within the app from inside the app itself. (I've got a primer and a bunch of specific suggestions here, if you could do with a refresher.) But the ones we're talking about today are even more mysterious. Those standard Android App Shortcuts are spectacular and similarly all too easy to forget about. So, here's what's especially interesting about the Android shortcuts of which we speak: They're almost identical in form to the standard Android App Shortcuts system - y'know, that thing where you can press and hold any app's icon on your home screen to reveal a series of direct links to specific functions within the app - only with these, you really have to go out of your way to find 'em. My friend, prepare to achieve Mega-Nerd™ status. And you'd have to be - well, an efficiency-obsessed Mega-Nerd™ to even realize they're there. These shortcuts are buried deep within some of Android's most productivity-oriented apps. Today, as your friendly neighborhood Mega-Nerd™, I want to remind you about an easily overlooked option for adding some extra step-shaving shortcuts directly onto your home screen.
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