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# Google Drive: Navigate Videos with Ease
- URL: https://www.jeffsu.org/productivity-ping-142/
- Published: 2024-01-19T01:00:38.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T12:56:44.000Z
- Description: #142
- Author: Jeff
- Tags: #newsletter, Google Drive

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Since we’re all productivity nerds, I’m sure all of us are familiar with Youtube’s super handy feature that lets us **<Copy video URL at current time>**

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/01/CleanShot-2024-01-16-at-18.49.11.gif)

## When a YouTube PM transfers to the Google Drive team

What you probably didn’t know is that you can perform the same action for videos in Google Drive:

- Open a video in Drive > Navigate to a specific moment > Dropdown menu next to “Share” > Copy link to this time

For example I ran a 1-hour workshop for Googlers in the Dublin office last year and because I still receive questions about a specific part of the workshop, I would just send them a timestamped link to the recording directly! 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/01/image-17.png)

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