- Other users with Gmail or Workspace email addresses
- Other Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides files
- Dates or Google Calendar events
- Places and map directions
Where there’s a smart chip in your document, you and other users can hover or click on a chip to get more information.
You can also insert placeholder chips, time trackers, and dropdowns, and use building blocks to track projects, files, and more.
Add smart chips for people, files, dates, events & places
- On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
- Type "@" anywhere in your document or click the "@" button on a blank line.
- To narrow your suggestions, select from the list of suggestions or enter letters, numbers, or symbols.
- Tip: To add a people smart chip, start typing the name or email address of the person you want, or type
@meto add yourself. - Tip: To add a file smart chip, enter the file name or related keywords.
- Tip: To add a people smart chip, start typing the name or email address of the person you want, or type
- To add a smart chip that a collaborator can fill in, select "Placeholder chip." Then select the type of information you want your collaborator to add when they fill in the smart chip.
- Hover over the chip to view related information.
Create and edit date chips
- On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
- To add a date chip, type:
@today@tomorrow@yesterday@date- A specific date, such as
@Janor@1/1/2021 - A relative date, such as
@monday,@next tuesday,@last wednesday
- To edit the:
- Date: Click the text field.
- Date format: Click Settings
.
After you add a date chip, it shows on the doc for all collaborators in the language of the person who added it. Date chips will appear the same to collaborators in all time zones. To see how far away the date is relative to your time zone, hover over the date chip.
Create Calendar event chips
You can add a smart chip for a Calendar event to see information about the event and join the video meeting from your Google Doc.
- On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
- You can either:
- Type “@” and scroll down to "Calendar events".
- At the top, click Insert
Smart chips
- Choose an event.
Tip: If the calendar event has a video meeting and is starting soon or has started already, you can join the video meeting from your Google Doc. Click the Calendar event chip, then at the bottom right, click Join.