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Yeah google's insistence on search for docs (over making organizing into folders easy) is really stupid. I agree this is the #1 worst feature of docs. #2. Ca

Yeah google's insistence on search for docs (over making organizing into folders easy) is really stupid. I agree this is the #1 worst feature of docs. #2. Can't use custom fonts, #3. In drawings, paste always pastes where the item was copied from which gets really irritating when you are trying to paste something you copied from the other side of a large drawing, #4. No embedding one type of doc into another

kasperset 9y ago
I do miss the embedding feature. Ideally, would like to drag and drop document/files à la Apple Notes.
crazygringo 9y ago
Curious what would make organizing into folders easier? From what I can tell it's literally drag-and-drop, no different from any other GUI filesystem. It has search too, but not instead? Files and folders that are shared with you show up by default only in your "Shared with me" folder, but you can still drag them anywhere into your own folder structure in Drive, and they work like a shortcut.
- sratner 9y ago
  >Files and folders that are shared with you show up by default only in your "Shared with me" folder This here is exactly the problem; it makes folders useless in a team setting. A colleague creates a document and files it under "Project Name/Engineering/Architecture/". She then shares it with me, we have a bit of a chat about it, and move on. A week later, I try to find said document, but it is not in "Project Name/Engineering/Architecture/". Was I supposed to file it there myself? What about the other ten people it was shared with? My "Shared with me" folder has a thousand items and no useful structure.
  - fmorel 9y ago
    There are "Team Drives" now which give a shared file/folder structure to files shared between a team of people.
    - sratner 9y ago
      Good to know. Looks like this is now a feature of "G Suite Business". https://support.google.com/a/answer/6034782 https://support.google.com/a/answer/6034782

kasperset 9y ago

I do miss the embedding feature. Ideally, would like to drag and drop document/files à la Apple Notes.

crazygringo 9y ago

Curious what would make organizing into folders easier? From what I can tell it's literally drag-and-drop, no different from any other GUI filesystem. It has search too, but not instead? Files and folders that are shared with you show up by default only in your "Shared with me" folder, but you can still drag them anywhere into your own folder structure in Drive, and they work like a shortcut.

sratner 9y ago
>Files and folders that are shared with you show up by default only in your "Shared with me" folder This here is exactly the problem; it makes folders useless in a team setting. A colleague creates a document and files it under "Project Name/Engineering/Architecture/". She then shares it with me, we have a bit of a chat about it, and move on. A week later, I try to find said document, but it is not in "Project Name/Engineering/Architecture/". Was I supposed to file it there myself? What about the other ten people it was shared with? My "Shared with me" folder has a thousand items and no useful structure.
- fmorel 9y ago
  There are "Team Drives" now which give a shared file/folder structure to files shared between a team of people.
  - sratner 9y ago
    Good to know. Looks like this is now a feature of "G Suite Business". https://support.google.com/a/answer/6034782 https://support.google.com/a/answer/6034782