Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
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Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
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#2Welcome to 2022, Google Docs. Unfortunately there's still a long way to Notion or Dropbox Paper.
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#3Great, personally I'd prefer to properly format letters (DIN 5008-B, anyone) without the need for invisible tables. Insert graphics without them looking like the page did not load correctly and have some sort of macro, variable system to make proper use of templates. Also, I'd love to upload my company's fonts or something a simple as proper numbering in lists with lists in them, but that probably just me trying to use their business product as an actual business user.
Docs largely feels like an abandoned product, newer features don't address actual issues people have. They just add nice to haves that I could use if it wasn't so embarrassing to use docs in the first place.
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#4I'm in the business of building an online word processor - https://www.zoho.com/writer
It's interesting how the documents industry is moving from print oriented legacy softwares (Google Docs, Word) to block based, app-ish, smart canvases (Notion, Coda, etc).
Also both Microsoft & Google have adopted completely different strategies to compete in this market. Microsoft launched Loop as an entirely new app while Google is incorporating these blocks as smart chips in Google Docs itself. Both strategies have their own pros and cons.
My bet is on Google Docs style, because this means a group that's already invested in traditional document making skills (legal professionals, academic professionals, etc) will be able to incrementally step up their game without their workflow being completely destroyed. Sure, this will slow down the pace with which Google Docs can innovate and evolve - but overall it helps the older generation to smoothly transition over to the new age document editing, which is great.
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#5Finally. I had a custom CSS plugin setup to do exactly this. Took me 3 minutes to figure out.
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#6Seems like they are looking closely at brainstorm tools more than typical document writing. Things such as https://www.mural.co/ and OneNote?
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#7Welcome to 2022, Google Docs. Unfortunately there's still a long way to Notion or Dropbox Paper.
It's utterly bizarre just how much Google docs seems to have dropped the ball.
It really feels like they haven't developed the product in the past 10 years. This is the first significant feature change that I can recall in a very long time other than minor UI tweaks.
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#8Hello Ms wordpad
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#9I thought it would be a more functional, but it seems mostly cosmetic. We don't have page boundaries, but actually they are still there. I can't place text or images outside those boundaries. It's nice, but it looks better with the vertical boundaries, and I think it's more accessible from a cognitive POV to have a boundary too.
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#10Welcome to 2022, Google Docs. Unfortunately there's still a long way to Notion or Dropbox Paper.
It's utterly bizarre just how much Google docs seems to have dropped the ball. It really feels like they haven't developed the product in the past 10 years. This is the first significant feature change that I can recall in a very long time other than minor UI tweaks.
Considering the fates of other Google products, that's a great outcome. At least it didn't end up like Gchat or Google Reader.