Craft a picture gallery via Google Drive direct URLs

One gotcha: the parameter only hides the UI; anyone who guesses the base /edit URL can still launch the deck. For read-only protection, switch the ending to /preview and set file access to "Viewer". Pair both tweaks and outside clicks drop 90 %. Full walk-through: Convert google Drive link to direct link.

The countdown begins the moment a visitor first clicks; subsequent accesses reset nothing. If you need a custom window, replace 7 with 1, 30, or any integer up to 365. The same panel allows you add a passphrase: any string ≥ 8 characters requires the recipient to enter it before the payload begins transferring.

Fire up the file → File → Publish to the web.
Pick the "Link" tab → "Published content & settings" → "Start slideshow as soon as the player loads".
Grab the generated address; it already ends in pub?start=true.
Stick &loop=true if auto-repeat is needed.

Both routes skip the toolbar, comments pane, and speaker-notes icon–viewers see only the slide canvas.

Pin the header (View → Freeze → Up to row 1) so Trello ignores it in parsing.
Swap spaces in column headers to underscores:"PublishDate" is matched sooner than "Release Date".
Insert emoji as Unicode text, not IMAGE functions, or Trello leaves them blank.
Stick to ISO year-month-day with =TEXT(D2,"YYYY-MM-DD") to skip date chaos.
Publish only the tab you need; stick &single=true to the URL to cloak the rest.
Hit Share → Anyone with link can view; Trello times out on private URLs.

Update the board whenever the sheet changes; Trello holds the cache for 900 s. Stick &fresh=rand to the URL if you need an immediate update.

Pro tip: append &size=1920x1080 to the export string if you want retina-grade clarity; the file weight jumps only 120 kB on average. Append &grid=false to nuke slide thumbnails along the left rail when the recipient later opens the full deck.

Flood 48-Hour Traffic With a 3-Step Social Teaser Sequence
Fire a 15s Reel at T-48 h: flash the cover page, slap a countdown sticker set to 47:59:00, stick the comment "PDF hits free tomorrow–reply 🔔 and I’ll DM the link first." 62 % of viewers who engage with a sticker bookmark the post; the pinned comment 3× DM volume.

Trick Raw Image Display by Tweaking the URL from /file/d/ to /uc?id=
Replace https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ab2Cd3Ef4Gh5Ij6Kl7Mn8Op9Qr0StUvW/view with https://drive.usercontent.google.com/uc?id=1Ab2Cd3Ef4Gh5Ij6Kl7Mn8Op9Qr0StUvW and stick &export=view to bypass the viewer and serve the binary.

Reserve cell A1 for the live publish link, B1 for the character count, C1 for focus keyword ratio, D1 for the CTA placement time, and E1 for the exact outreach list–no headers, no merged cells, no color coding until the data is entered. Copy this framework into five tabs named JUL-Q3, August-Q3, Q3-SEP, Archive, and METRICS; freeze row 2 on every tab so filters never scroll away. Set data validation on column F to accept only "idea, writing, editing, planned, active, recycled" so mistakes can’t sneak into chart charts later.

Rotate into readable block. In A5 create a column 1-53 (weeks). B5 needs the first Monday of the year: =A1-WEEKDAY(A1,3). C5: =B5+7, drag right 12 columns for 12 months. Set cells as MMM dd to reveal month boundary.

Switch /edit with /present to shave menus and stop accidental edits
Grab any file URL ending in /edit, cut those four characters, type /present, copy the new address. Anyone who opens it lands in full-screen playback: zero toolbar, no comment pane, no "Suggest changes" button. The only clickable element is the slide progress bar; right-click is gone, so accidental rearrangement or text deletion is impossible.

Miss the cutoff and the bin nukes itself; server copies vanish no take-backs. To dodge loss, flip "Version history" in settings—the engine stores 100 snapshots per file for 30 days and eats no added space.

Stay under 100 MB; anything larger fires a malware check page that makes the recipient to hit a second button. If your archive overshoots that ceiling, split it with 7-Zip into 95 MB parts and label the parts–nearly every download managers reassemble them hands-free.

Tag "&rm=minimal" to the URL to hide speaker notes and control bar
Glue &rm=minimal right after the file ID–zero added slash, no space. The URL turns from …/present/…/edit#slide=id.p1 into …/present/…/edit#slide=id.p1&rm=minimal. Every slide fills the tab, the speaker-note pane vanishes, and the lower filmstrip never loads. Viewers can still arrow-key through slides, but the three-dots menu, "Open in new window", and download icon are axed, cutting exit points by 70 % in A-B tests.

Grab the ID string that follows /file/d/ or id=.
Drop it following export=media&id=.
Hit Enter. The browser fetches the binary without hitting the quota API.

This hack coerces the server to stream the object as raw content instead of counting it against the daily 5 TB cap.

Inside the desktop client, right-click any folder and choose "Stream files" to store only 1 MB previews local; the full RAW stays online. When Lightroom requests for the source, route it at the assigned drive letter–edits push back to the cloud within 30 seconds on a 50 Mbps uplink, saving 700 GB of SSD space per year.