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Google Workspace is definitely a notch better than G Suite. Collaborating is just made easier across document editing with Google Meet in-picture.

Now, one key field of "Workspace" in which Google is still nearly absent is PROJECT MANAGEMENT. Google Workspace targets millions of various companies of different sizes so it is tough to make a one-size fits all solution. I get it. But right now, Calendar is awesome, Docs are awesome, Gmail is amazing, but Tasks is subpar and too thin of a layer.

It is annoying to have your team do most stuff on G Suite (Workspace) but then orchestrate that somewhere else (Asana, ClickUp, etc). It's just something that has been missing for a long time and I hope they are filling that void somehow soon.

https://tables.area120.google.com/ may be their answer, although it seems to be very beta and lacking in terms of integration.

Here is their promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWOGbu5BcT0

That's because Google doesn't really use, or understand, project management, AFAICT.

/snark

Based on my experience at Google. It's not that Google doesn't understand project management. It's the intentional choice that Google does project management that way based on its culture, people, the way they interact. BTW, this is the tool Google uses internally for so-called project management https://issuetracker.google.com/, with the help of Google Sheets to do a bit advanced summary and plotting

This is tight! Picture-in-Picture meet with docs sounds incredible for all those times when you have to work on a doc together with a teammate. The integration with chat looks okay but I doubt it's enough to displace Slack from our workspace. For all of Google's faults, Docs is still the best way to collaborate on documents, and I'm glad they're pushing this further.

It's important to note that along with the new name they also reduced storage from Unlimited to 2TB on their $12/u/mo plan.

Only for new users - existing customers can stay at 12$/month unlimited until they adjust their plan.

"Until it's time to transition" [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/GoogleWorkspace/status/13135408082017116...

The new icons are terrible. Every icon looks the same. I want to open an app fast, instead of figuring out what the icon is.

The design of the logos are not consistent.

Gmail and Meet- Blue, red, yellow, green

Calender - Blue, green, red, yellow

Drive and Docs - Blue, green, yellow, red

Google has been doing this for years. Look at the Android icons for all of their "Play" apps. They're all named "Play xyz" and have an almost identical icon.

Play Games is a green play button.

Play Movies is a red play button.

Play Music is an orange play button.

Play Store is a multi-colored play button.

It's horrible UX.

I also dislike the Google {Fit,Home,One, WiFi) icons since they all use the same ingredients. It's like Google is actually paying graphic designers horrendous amounts of money for remixing the company colors into various shapes. It's so sad.

Remember the beautiful icons introduced in Android Lollipop? https://images.app.goo.gl/zrbLWopUrqs26i7CA

That Gmail demo reminds me of Google Wave :)

This seems to happen often in tech. Imagine you were the PM of Wave. It was such a revolutionary way to work. But no one was ready for it.

People (in larger orgs) are so easily set in their ways. Even now with Teams and Workspace people will most likely keep doing it the „wrong“ way. Emails and Attachments

I think I read somewhere that Chat is basically just a modernized frontend for Wave but I can't find the source.

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