> I actually think this hyper-granular realtime collaboration like in Google docs is slightly overrated. Disagree, with the caveat that I understand how it ca

> I actually think this hyper-granular realtime collaboration like in Google docs is slightly overrated. Disagree, with the caveat that I understand how it can feel overrated if you're not using the new ways of remote collaboration that it enables. The fully-live remote-collaboration UX in tools like Google Docs [1] and Figma is magical because you can get on a video call with people [2] and co-create, in the moment, without having to fumble with all the nonsense of figuring out who's "driving" and who's "navigating." Since you're all looking at and editing the same doc, everyone can arrange their windows to have a line of faces along the side and the doc in the center. It's actually better than in-person collaboration. There's no haggling over who's got the whiteboard marker, no one sneezing on everyone else, no crowding around to make sure everyone can see the board... All the extra nonsense drops away, and you get to be just a group of people making something together. [1]: Notably, Google Sheets uses a much more ham-handed idea of "realtime." A cell appears "locked" while someone else is editing it, and you don't see their work until they hit Enter. So you end up having to sit there like a buffoon while they type, their work invisible to you, and that friction destroys the magic of live collaboration. [2]: If you don't do much remote work/collaboration with others around the world, then none of this matters — and it's easy to miss the world of possibilities that this feature unlocks.