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# Google Drive: Link to Video Timestamp!
- URL: https://www.jeffsu.org/productivity-ping-68/
- Published: 2023-01-27T03:12:38.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T13:11:03.000Z
- Description: #68
- Author: Jeff
- Tags: #newsletter, Google Drive

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## 🤔 What is it?

If you’re reading this newsletter, you’re obviously a productive person.

So let’s say you found my **Gmail Filters tip** super helpful in my latest video and you:

- Right click > “Choose to copy video URL at current time” and send the link to your colleagues
- Example: [https://youtu.be/QHrWMMlVYRA?t=225](https://youtu.be/QHrWMMlVYRA?t=225&ref=jeffsu.org)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/01/image-49.png)

But what if the video is an internal-only video uploaded to your Google Drive? The Right click > Copy feature doesn’t work.

No worries! You only need to make 1 small adjustment to the URL of the video

## 📸 Instructions

First, make sure the video is shared with the right people

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/01/image-50.png)

Second, copy the URL of the video and after the word “view”, add “?t=mmss”

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/01/image-51.png)

Let’s use Ali Abdaal’s public Google Drive video as an example:

- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WcPBvyvC7Fa-sLSPaQumQ1cbbZ3QLixD/view](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WcPBvyvC7Fa-sLSPaQumQ1cbbZ3QLixD/view?ref=jeffsu.org)

The new URL would be:

- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WcPBvyvC7Fa-sLSPaQumQ1cbbZ3QLixD/view?t=1m45s](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WcPBvyvC7Fa-sLSPaQumQ1cbbZ3QLixD/view?t=1m45s&ref=jeffsu.org)

And that’s it! Simple right?

## ⌨️ Keyboard shortcut

- OPT+CMD+G to browse Google Drive if you have Drive for Desktop installed on the Mac (huge thank you to [Peter Hardeel](https://www.instagram.com/peterhardeel/?hl=en&ref=jeffsu.org) for this tip)!

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/01/image-52.png)

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