Google’s ‘smart chips’ now let you view project data from other apps inside Google Docs

You can now embed third-party app “smart chips” in your Google Docs after the company announced yesterday that the feature For both Google Workspace users and those with personal Google Accounts. Google announced it was opening up the feature to third parties last year as part of its ongoing “smart canvas” revamp of its Office suite, which has brought other features like pageless layout to Google Docs.

To use third-party smart chips, you must first install the add-on of the app as an administrator or user google workspace marketplace, Then, you can simply get the share link from the third-party app source and paste it into your document. From there, you’ll be prompted to hit the Tab key, which pops up the smart chip in the document and lets you preview the app’s information and task status, so people collaborating within a Google document can quickly see Document the progress of the project without leaving it.

How the chips are implemented is up to the developer. For example, according to the apps’ workspace marketplace pages, figma “Allows users to drag interactive previews of Figma and FigJam files into Google Docs, so teammates can easily reference the latest design and project work in context,” while Atlassian Cloud The add-on can also let you attach relevant Jira issues so that you can track them inside a working document.

I tried it out and was able to integrate with Figma up and running within a few minutes – it was great. Once the link was pasted, I simply hovered over the Figma link, and after a moment, it popped up with a preview image of the project, along with who made it and when it was last updated.