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Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
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Re: Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
#92I'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…
> legal professionals I would love to meet these mythical legal professionals that use anything other than track changes in docx. :D
Not to mention that having any kind of client-related document on an online service like Google that's indexing the content (at the least) is probably a violation of attorney-client privilege.
Re: Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
#93I'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…
Loop is an interesting app, rendered entirely pointless for me by the fact that I cannot share it outside of my organisation :(
Re: Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
#94I'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…
What's the benefit here? Seems like it's touted as an innovation, but the only thing I see is that page breaks are gone. Which isn't bad, I mostly use Google docs for online articles and to maintain a todo list, so things are now a bit cleaner. But it doesn't seem like a big change...
When creating docs only meant to be consumed online, the page breaks have gotten in my way before many times. Splitting up paragraphs because they don't fit on a page etc.
So I can see this change having a big effect on consumers. If by "how big a change" you meant "would anyone even care", I think people will care, yes. Including me.
How big a change was it to implement? I don't know.
Note in addition to not having page breaks, it appears to have several "responsive" features added too (from the OP description, I haven't played with it yet myself). Lines wrap at whatever your screen size is (including zoom level), and there is apparently some screen-size-responsiveness to at least some images too.
I couldn't say how difficult this was to implement, having no idea what the code is like, and knowing that large legacy codebases can make naive predictions of how difficult a given change might be unreliable.
Re: Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
#95I keep all of my notes in a single Google Doc called “notes”. The top contains an index with bookmarks to different categories eg health, business, etc. It’s so big and bloated and is barely usable. I am optimistic that an “infinite surface to work on” will help make my notes usable again.
Re: Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
> legal professionals I would love to meet these mythical legal professionals that use anything other than track changes in docx. :D
I agree. I have over 50 US patents, and the multitude of patent lawyers I have worked with all use docs with change tracking enabled. EDIT: parents -> patents
>I have over 50 US parents
I feel for you, my kids have two US parents and they find them to be quite the pain in the ass. :-)
Re: Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
#97I'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…
> legal professionals I would love to meet these mythical legal professionals that use anything other than track changes in docx. :D
Don't forget passing around Excel documents. I'm not a lawyer, but I've read accounts of this from enough to think it's a whole thing and not an isolated phenomenon.
Re: Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
#98Glad to see this feature return after being removed years ago after Writely was absorbed into Google.
Re: Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the benefit here? Seems like it's touted as an innovation, but the only thing I see is that page breaks are gone. Which isn't bad, I mostly use Google docs for online articles and to maintain a todo list, so things are now a bit cleaner. But it doesn't seem like a big change...
When creating docs only meant to be consumed online, the page breaks have gotten in my way before many times. Splitting up paragraphs because they don't fit on a page etc. So I can see this change having a big effect on consumers. If by "how big a change" you meant "would anyone even care", I think people will care, yes. Including me. How big a change was it to implement? I don't know. Note in addition to not having…
I didn't think about the costs of implementing it, but that it seems to be an discussion worthy topic here on HN.
But I don't understand why.
Re: Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is a weird criticism. A document is clearly not a webpage, main use of Google docs is easy collaboration and that’s not really a thing with html. Most people would not set up something like a git repo to track changes and comment on the content for example.
My comment was not meant as criticism. I'm not sure why anyone would interpret it as such.
Your opening sentence came off to me as sarcastic opining that this is an inferior reinvention of a 30-year-old wheel.