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Updated link: Try clicking this link instead to access Google Tasks as a separate website! I love Google Tasks. Even though its identity has effectively been split between two different task management systems – one in Google Chat, and the other remaining traditionally named with just a new logo and a few new features, it’s […]
Not long ago, Google announced something called ‘Companion Mode’ for its Google Meet hardware that was meant to help remote teams connect with each other, even if they weren’t in front of a Chromebook or desktop computer. Now, this new tool is rolling out in an official capacity! Companion Mode lets you use your device […]
If you’re hosting an all-hands meeting with globally distributed teams, you may be happy to hear that Google Meet’s previously announced ‘Live translated captions’ are now generally available. The company stated last year that they would be rolling out soon for select Workspace editions, and now here we are! Live translated captions work for French, […]
As I previously stated in my Google Keep bulk editing article, Keep is one of my favorite services that the company offers. It’s lightweight and versatile in its offerings, even if those offerings are fairly vanilla. I actually love that about it. Where other notetaking services are complex and offer many features, Keep keeps it […]
One of my favorite Google services is Google Keep. I use it across all of my accounts as a journal of sorts for tracking my experiences, thoughts, and more. For work, I write down interesting article ideas, and for my game studio, I use it as a worldbuilding tool for my game universe. It’s one […]
In a new Keyword blog post this morning, Google unofficially revealed an update to Google Tasks on the web. While discussing tools to help you tackle your New Year’s resolution, it inadvertently dropped an image of the Tasks sidebar in Google Workspace, but instead of looking how we’re all accustomed to it looking, it took […]
I’ve needed to use em dashes quite a bit in the last few months for some larger documents that I’m collaborating with others on, and unfortunately, I never learned to use them properly. Instead, I have always used hyphens both because I didn’t know better, and because I’m too lazy to use the unicode em […]
Google Drive allows you to store almost any and all filetypes from general formats like zip archives, images, audio, and videos to Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe files. While it was originally only really known for its Document storage, it’s become so much more over the years. With that, however, many people have forgotten that there […]
For years now, Google Calendar has worked very different from the company’s other apps on mobile. Instead of allowing you to swap quickly between which account you’re utilizing for all of its primary tasks like creating and managing events, users have instead been forced to be very careful while creating new calendar entries to be […]
Millions of Google account users have been receiving unwanted spam files in Drive, and events on their Calendars from people they don’t know, and Google has done quite a bit to shut that down. In July, they made it to where you could block people from sharing files with you if they weren’t in your […]
Google is pushing its timeline for converting all of your duplicate files and folders into shortcuts that point to the initially uploaded versions from now to early next year. For both personal Google Accounts and all workspace tiers, the company will begin to replace these items stored in multiple locations across Drive with “arrows” that […]
I’m not gonna lie – I have always hated creating tables in Google Docs. I’ve hated it so much so that I’ve done everything in my power to shift any data that needed to be there over to Google Sheets instead, but I can understand why it’s important to be able to insert this content […]
