Google just introduced a new search tab for Docs, Sheets, and Slides, which could revolutionize the way we interact with web apps.

The improved tool finder will appear at the top of every app and is intended to make it easier for users to find tools and features that are normally buried deep in menus. The big bonus here is that you can search for these tools using natural language. Google gives the example of typing "who last viewed this document" into the new search bar to open the Activity dashboard. The company says that these "refined tool-finding capabilities" will make it easier to "quickly find relevant features or functionality using your own words."

The new tool finder will also suggest common actions as you work in the document. For example, when you open a new document, spreadsheet, or presentation, the search tab will suggest enabling meeting notes, inserting a new row in a table, or editing a theme in Slides, as appropriate. As you work, these suggestions can morph into spell checkers and other commonly used tools. Clicking the tool finder also reveals previously used features to further reduce menu diving.

Before this launch, you had to go to the help menu and then the search menu to find a tool or feature. You can still do that, but it also opens the new tool finder.