I have no idea how Google's UI designers seem to repeatedly decide to violate the most basic tenet of UI/UX design: Don't take something that works for the majority of your user base and change it such that it now irritates and frustrates most of said user base. Or put another way: Something a minority of users will use should not have to be a distraction to all the other users. That's just BAD UI/UX design. I think living at the Google campuses may somehow end up being an echo-chamber. While I'm ranting: Let me decide what's on my menu bar. It also has become a thing full of annoyance because it has so much I don't ever (and never will) use, yet it eats up real estate that pushes things I use a lot (like intentions and lists) off into a drop down. Daft! Vexatious! Google!

Google docs is usable again! It's such a small thing, but endlessly annoying for someone that never ever inserts stuff like that into the documents I write, and seeing something pop up after I stop typing every time is a distraction and breaks concentration on what I was trying to convey. Why would they ever think "lets add something new, but with no way of turning it off!"

Thank you so much for this. Every time I made a new line I kept getting irritated and it kept pulling me out of what I was writing. Why Google couldn't implement an 'off' switch themselves, I'll never know. Or maybe just remind you once at the start of a new document and that's it? Why hover it on every new line? Thanks for this extension, it works. People who hate this feature, don't forget to complain via Docs > Help > Help Docs Improve so they don't pull this type of stuff on us in future.

I Love You!!!!! :)

Hooray--this works! Thank you so much; the "@" made googledocs unusable for me.

When I created a new Doc two months ago, it came pre-slathered with widgets at the top. Blank canvas is sacred to the writer, so this was aggressive. What a bad decision. Apparently, that was just an opener. With the @ flashing in front of every new paragraph, it's clear someone high up the chain has lost their mind. My use case is simple, so I will leave if they ask again. In the mean time, thank you for the filter! I bet no user would mind if you also excluded the buttons, slathered across new Docs.

Finally I can focus without that stupid @ ruining everything I'm trying to write. Thank you for this life saviour.

Thank f-ing god. this thing was killing my writing flow.

Oh my effing god thank you

My characters stopped speaking and stared at it with each new paragraph. You saved their lives.

Thank you! - writers everywhere