New Google Docs files via shortcuts
Most of my day is spent on my laptop and I like to find or come up with new ways to work faster and more efficiently all the time. Bookmarks, bookmarklets, keyboard shortcuts, GMail filters, and scripts are all great ways to automate repetitive steps. Since I use Google Docs at work and at home to create new documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, I recently set up some bookmarks and keyboard shortcuts to quickly create new files.
The Official Google Docs Blog had a post (Hot Tips: Create new docs, even faster) which contained the following links that you can drag to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar to easily create new files at docs.google.com:
Since most of my Docs usage is at work and my work uses Google Apps (duh), I had to modify those links to point to my work account rather than my personal account. You can easily do this by opening up your bookmarks manager and editing the properties of each bookmark to point to the correct domain. For example, the link to create a new document would change from http://docs.google.com/?action=newdoc to http://docs.google.com/a/example.com/?action=newdoc where example.com is the domain you’re using with Apps
The /a/ in that URL is for Apps 
Finally, since I like to use my keyboard as much as possible without having to constantly switch to my trackpad or mouse, I set up some keyboard shortcuts to point to those bookmarks. I use Camino, but this should be the same in Firefox and Safari: Open up your bookmarks manager, right click on one of the bookmarks and hit Bookmark Info:
In the Shortcut field, I put in s for spreadsheet. Now when I want to open a new spreadsheet, I just need to type s into my browsers location bar! You can use d for document, s for spreadsheet, and p for presentation. I use one set for my personal account and others for my work account (ie. w for Writely)
Using CMD-L to get to the location bar or CMD-T to open a new tab, I never have to use my mouse again to open a new file in Google Docs!