So Gmail has a new look for the experience aiming to be a little bit more slack like they want to bring the
workspace into one location
This comes after much-needed upgrades to the Google meat experience in today's video
We'll outline and detail the new G suite workspace and how it works
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So Google want Gmail to be your home for work
So to be clear before we start the individual accounts aren't changing but according to the verge Google have stated
They're actively thinking about how to bring this to the free accounts
So Google believed that you start your day with email and in reality that is probably the case in the majority of situations
They also believe that hopping between chat
Applications and email is the worst and I can imagine that too direct call out for applications like slack
So in an attempt to fix this they're introducing a new ability called chat
This is essentially real-time chat and what you had before in hangouts
So inside of the new GS we experienced you'll still get Google meet for calls inside of Google meet now
You'll see a new window that shows all of your upcoming meetings
This is available through Google Calendar and it allows you to bring in upcoming meetings that you have in your day
so Google also believe that
Project Work happens in different places
This is probably a call to project management software where conversations go on about specific tools in comments
They want to introduce a new feature, which I think is probably the biggest feature is called rooms
It's essentially like thread based conversations, which allows you to manage both your files and tasks
Google says making rooms an even better solution for long term projects
So inside of rooms you get a window for files and you can essentially start managing your tasks with whoever's in that
For the project. It's very simple, but allows you to do some of the basics you would with a task management application
so this is all available through the web edition the desktop Edition and it's very helpful because both
Experiences are the same a mobile and on web. They also have this new focused mode so that
Notifications can be muted for a specific amount of time
And also when you're in a meeting they want to protect your time
So you if you're in a meeting will appear as in a meeting for the last 31 minutes
This doesn't happen in applications like SWAC, but I guess you could do a workaround with a slack bot
So let's hone in on few of the features in one of the demo videos Google posted
I'm gonna share the videos below that are stated in this video
So inside of the demo video they showcase Google Calendar
You can check them using the widgets on the left hand side
But inside of Google Calendar events, you can now add rooms to those events. So you can associate a room to a specific event
Now rooms allow you to add threaded replies. You can choose that as an option
You can also add people that are outside of your organization
You can choose whether they get email notifications on them and also adding specific people to the conversation
You can even add an avatar to each of your rooms
So you can also add reactions inside of any of the conversations you're having inside of rooms
So the new my meetings is very helpful
You can see a dashboard over all of your upcoming meetings who's gonna be in them and create as much detail as possible
Before you go in so one of the biggest changes I'd say to the tree-sweet workspace as well is the ability to Co edit
Documents within Gmail without moving out and you can also have in-line meet conversations, too
And it's demonstrated in the video. They have you can also
externally tag people into a room
they aren't necessarily part of your organization and they'll be able to communicate in the room as well as
Edit the document. I believe that are associated with the rooms
Now if you're curious about how tasks work
They're super simple
You can assign people
You can add dates and also some notes to the tasks and you do get this view it allows you to add and show more
Details as well as adding due dates as well
Now in terms of the Google suite experience to be honest, it just adds more bang to your buck some of the smaller things
I noticed might actually get you even more excited about this new upgrade
So search becomes a little bit smarter, you can open search and start looking for people and types of items
For example, if you wanted to see where the Bob sent a PDF you can find that all there
Up in the top right hand corner you now have some in good status. I believe you can update this
Although I haven't seen the option available. It has a drop-down
So I assume you can change this to
A different status and there may be a few creative ones a little a bit like how slack works
Now one of the things they didn't see in some of the preview videos is if you open up mail
It doesn't seem to have this broken down Gmail sections
For example being able to get a filtered email system. Looks like you've got smaller filters there
You can narrow down your conversations to but I don't think they have this
Old-school way of organizing it. So a few other smaller things you can now pin important meetings. So they're easier to find
inside of the drive area you can add comments and open in Drive and also on the left hand side when you're
inside of art the applications specifically inside of the docs that clean the sidebar makes it easier so you can view your
Sidebar and apps and they also tuck away when you need them to
So Google have also stated some changes and updates to Google meats and chat
Apparently you have two new things coming the knocking controls. So apparently once an attendee is ejected
They won't be able to attempt to join the same meeting again by knocking
Unless the host Rhian veidt's them. There's also safety locks
So hosts can now decide which attendees can chat all present in the meeting
So it looks like and it sounds like Google is investing in this working from home
And this definitely brings the whole Google experience a lot more together. I feel like in the last few years
It's been definitely dis disent associated with each other and it's been at different locations
So this definitely cleans everything up whether Google continue to invest and improve this
Will be to be seen but at the same time it's definitely for those Googlers out there a much needed upgrade
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