Rename each chapter file with a four-digit timestamp plus working title: 0723-Diner-Shootout. The leading numeral forces alphabetical order to match chronology; the string stays unique even after a thousand revisions. Pair this with a one-line comment at the top of the document–Status: rough / Goal: 850 w / Next: add smell of burnt coffee–so the note opens in the mobile preview pane without a click.
Zip the entire __Template folder, push it to a collab disk, and flip its permission to "Commenter" for everyone. When a new book starts, any teammate clicks "Duplicate", renames the copy to the working title, and at once inherits the locked table, regex sheet, and bookmark-ready scene shell. Total setup time: under a quarter-hour. Copy time for the following project: 14 seconds.
Pull CSS, JS, and Image Assets with Direct Links
Substitute every uc\?id\=FILE_ID URL with https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=FILE_ID&export=view&authuser=0 to duck the 404 that pops up after the first hundred requests.
Inject CSS ahead of any tailor-made rule: . Cache-bust with &cache\=123 glued to the same snippet; bump the number when you push a revised sheet.
Pull Javascript sans MIME issues: . Stick defer so the parser won’t block; keep the script below 10 MB or the server returns 413.
Graphics: call the web-view link, then swap open\? for uc? and tack on &export\=view. A 1920×1080 JPEG drops from 3.2 MB to 800 KB when you pass it over jpegoptim -s -q 85 before push; this slashes the lighthouse LCP score.
Inline SVG icons: paste the uc\? URL into the omnibar, grab the raw XML, and stick it directly; this nukes one round-trip and holds the icon sharp on retina screens.
Prefetch critical assets in the : . Chrome elevates such nudges above level-three images, shaving first paint by 200 ms on 3G.
Check CORS: the domain drive.usercontent.Google Drive Direct Link Generator.com spits Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, so fetch calls from your page sail without proxy hacks.
Quota wall: one folder can serve ~2 TB per day; exceed it and all assets bounce back 403 until the next UTC midnight. Spread heavy binaries across multiple folders or clone them on a second account.
Test Across Devices & Browsers
Fire up the public share link in Win Chrome 124, macOS Safari 17, Firefox 115 ESR, Edge 124, and Samsung Internet 23. Snap each render with about://version screenshots. Probe viewport width 320 px on iPhone SE, 390 px on iPhone 14, 412 px on Pixel 7, and 768 px on iPad Air. Rotate each handset to 90°; verify no horizontal overflow. Run document.documentElement.clientWidth in mobile DevTools console to double-check breakpoints.
Measure touch targets: tap every button with a 48 × 48 px stylus; record missed hits. Simulate 3G in Chrome DevTools, shoot for Largest Contentful Paint <2.5 s. Fire up BrowserStack live session for OnePlus 11 on Android 14; film video at 60 fps, check for frame drops during 300 ms CSS transition. Paste navigator.userAgent output into a CSV to build a device matrix.
Launch axe-core 4.9 via Chrome extension; nail any contrast ratio below 4.5:1. On Safari, turn on VoiceOver and roam with rotor; guarantee focus order aligns with visual layout. Log screen-reader speech rate at 70 % speed; dump transcript for comparison. Wrap test by logging off all cloud accounts to prevent cached credentials from skewing next cycle.
Update Drive Links on File Change
Replace the old revision in place of uploading a duplicate; the public URL remains identical and the embed reloads within 5 min.
Launch the existing item → right-click → "Manage versions" → "Upload new version".
Pick the updated build; check "Keep original file name" to prevent path drift.
Wait for the check-mark icon; reload the live page–no link surgery required.
If you already duplicated the asset and now have two objects:
Trash the obsolete one; the shareable URI croaks with it.
Copy the new URI, plug it in every and .
Append ?cachebust= to shove CDN refresh on external sites.
Snippets that use /file/d/ID/view can be flipped to /uc?id=ID&export=download to skip the viewer wrapper and spit raw markup.
Arrange a 60-minute cron to fetch the direct link; search for "404"; when spotted, ping a webhook to your repository to auto-push the updated ID—zero human edits.
Reserve the IDs using a simple regex in Sigil: Find: (
