❖ Sign-in is Easy, Switching Accounts is Difficult
One you are logged in, click your profile image in the upper right and select any Google account from the drop down to switch to that account.
The default account, the one that appears on top of that list, is the one that you signed in with first. Thus, if you type mail.google.com in your browser’s address bar, you’ll always be taken your Gmail account. If you need to set another Google account as the default one, you’d have to sign-out of all existing accounts and sign-in first with that account.
That’s obviously too many steps for users who have to constantly juggle between multiple accounts. So here’s a simple URL trick that will help you switch between Google accounts quickly.
❖ Create Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Accounts
Go to the Gmail website and press Ctrl+D (or Cmd+D on Mac) to bookmark the Gmail website.
Click the Edit button to modify the bookmark. Here add
?authuser=email@gmail.com after the last slash(/) symbol and append the shortcut to the bookmark name as shown below.
We use the short “gw” meaning Google Apps for Work Gmail.
Repeat the steps for all your other Gmail accounts.
You can now type gw in the address bar to quickly launch your work Gmail account even if that account may not be your default Google account.
The trick works with all Google Apps services including Google Drive, Contacts and Calendar.
https://calendar.google.com/?authuser=email@domain.com
https://drive.google.com/?authuser=email@gmail.com
https://contacts.google.com/?authuser=email@domain.org
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