Placeholder Chips in Google Docs

Planning a meeting but don't know the details yet? Or are you creating the notes but a collaborator has some information you need but don't have? Google's new placeholder smart chips can help with that!

When creating a Google Doc, you can add replaceable chips for people, dates, files, events, and places that can be quickly filled in by you (at a later date) or by document collaborators.

When you add placeholder chips, they will look like this in your document:

To use the placeholder chips, a user hovers over or clicks on the placeholder chip and a search menu opens that includes results filtered to the chip type. For example, when a user hovers over the "Date" chip, a calendar pops up so the user can easily choose a date.

Placeholder chips are particularly useful when creating templates to use over and over.