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The hardest part of documents within a business is not producing documents but rather creating a useful library. Google Docs is a place where great documents go
by phphphphp 4y ago
The hardest part of documents within a business is not producing documents but rather creating a useful library. Google Docs is a place where great documents go to die.
Notion’s success (for example) is more about it making it possible to create a useable library of documents than it is about being an editor with neat widgets.
I don’t know if Hermes is going to be particularly successful given it’s competing with things like Notion, but in principle, a library for Google Docs is a great and valuable project for teams using Google Docs.
- xpe 4y agoI take your point. You said "creating", but I think you might mean "creating and maintaining". The editing / curation / reorganizing is quite important too. Related tasks include: editing, tagging, categorizing, verifying accuracy (and telling the audience this!), general updating, cross-linking, and retiring.
- atonse 4y agoI have lost count the number of times I’ve searched for a doc in Google drive and found nothing. It’s shockingly bad given that Google literally is a SEARCH company.
- saifulwebid 4y agoGoogle was a search company. Now it is an advertising company.
- mkraft 4y agoYou know their largest revenue stream.
- gcanyon 4y agoThis has been my experience as well. Google seems torn between multiple principles: 1. Like Google Search, you shouldn't try to organize your files, you should just let search do all the heavy lifting. 2. You should definitely organize things yourself, but search is a nice backup if you make a mistake -- anyone here create a document in Drive and have no idea what folder it *actually* ended up in? 3. Search? That's another team.