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Google Docs and Sheets already feels like abandonedware. I haven't seen any substantial changes in years.

lazharichir 6y ago
Erm, the explore tab in Sheets is pretty awesome for small businesses and people unfamiliar with Excel-like formula. Not sure when that was released, though!
- tyingq 6y ago
  Looks like 2015: https://www.bettercloud.com/monitor/the-academy/google-sheets-now-automatically-analyzes-your-data-for-you/ https://www.bettercloud.com/monitor/the-academy/google-sheet...
markstos 6y ago
Table of Contents navigator was recently added, I think "Document Compare" is fairly new.
uponcoffee 6y ago
The otherside of that coin is feature creep. Docs/sheets so their job fine, so aside from minor updates//fixes they don't need to substantially change; given their user based substantial redesigns should be their own product and if they prove to be substantially better then they can migrate away from the old docs/sheets
delecti 6y ago
I can't imagine what additional features the overwhelming majority of people need out of a word processor or spreadsheet software.
- foobiekr 6y ago
  Docs still can't handle large documents with a long edit history. It slows to a crawl. This has been an issue since at least 2013. We are talking about document sizes that Word for Windows 95 could handle.
- heavyset_go 6y ago
  I recently had to use LibreOffice to format a simple document because Google Docs couldn't handle it.
theptip 6y ago
Viewing BigQuery data from your Sheet was a pretty nice addition, circa Jan 2019. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/connecting-bigquery-and-google-sheets-to-help-with-hefty-data-analysis https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/connecting-bi... I'm inclined to agree with you on Docs though, there is a bunch of stuff that Notion does (really badly IMO) that Drive/Docs just can't do, and so people use Notion instead. For example (in case any Google PMs are reading), folding bullets, easily embedding tables, embedding sub-docs, faster navigation/caching of folders in the web browser, and perhaps most important, a sensible way to build a wiki-type knowledge base, with "front pages" on each directory (like how Github handles README.md).

Erm, the explore tab in Sheets is pretty awesome for small businesses and people unfamiliar with Excel-like formula. Not sure when that was released, though!

tyingq 6y ago
Looks like 2015: https://www.bettercloud.com/monitor/the-academy/google-sheets-now-automatically-analyzes-your-data-for-you/ https://www.bettercloud.com/monitor/the-academy/google-sheet...

markstos 6y ago

Table of Contents navigator was recently added, I think "Document Compare" is fairly new.

uponcoffee 6y ago

The otherside of that coin is feature creep. Docs/sheets so their job fine, so aside from minor updates//fixes they don't need to substantially change; given their user based substantial redesigns should be their own product and if they prove to be substantially better then they can migrate away from the old docs/sheets

delecti 6y ago

I can't imagine what additional features the overwhelming majority of people need out of a word processor or spreadsheet software.

foobiekr 6y ago
Docs still can't handle large documents with a long edit history. It slows to a crawl. This has been an issue since at least 2013. We are talking about document sizes that Word for Windows 95 could handle.
heavyset_go 6y ago
I recently had to use LibreOffice to format a simple document because Google Docs couldn't handle it.

theptip 6y ago

Viewing BigQuery data from your Sheet was a pretty nice addition, circa Jan 2019. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/connecting-bigquery-and-google-sheets-to-help-with-hefty-data-analysis https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/connecting-bi... I'm inclined to agree with you on Docs though, there is a bunch of stuff that Notion does (really badly IMO) that Drive/Docs just can't do, and so people use Notion instead. For example (in case any Google PMs are reading), folding bullets, easily embedding tables, embedding sub-docs, faster navigation/caching of folders in the web browser, and perhaps most important, a sensible way to build a wiki-type knowledge base, with "front pages" on each directory (like how Github handles README.md).