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Meet and Google Docs are perfect Google products. I'm disapponted when people send me Zoom meetings or want to meet on Slack. Google Meet is a 10x better exper

Meet and Google Docs are perfect Google products. I'm disapponted when people send me Zoom meetings or want to meet on Slack. Google Meet is a 10x better experience.

lawik 2y ago
Unless you need legible screen dharing of a code editor in my experience. Zoom is awful in many ways but blows Meet out of the water for our needs.
aniviacat 2y ago
Is it possible to use Google Meet without telling Google your phone number? I know that it's possible to use Zoom and Teams anonymously. But for Google Meet, I assume providing a (verified) phone number is required.
- rav 2y ago
  You can use it with just a personal Google account - does that require a phone number? Alternatively, someone with a Google account can create a meeting (https://meet.new https://meet.new) and send you the link, which you can join without any Google account at all.
  - worthless-trash 2y ago
    I have never given my work my number, and yet meet seems to work for all my work meetings.
parpfish 2y ago
I love meet because of how well it’s integrated with google cal
- gomox 2y ago
  There's a Zoom plugin for GCal that makes Zoom's integration identical to Meet, including mobile app integration.
  - parpfish 2y ago
    Good luck getting everyone in your company/org to successfully install an additional browser plugin
benhurmarcel 2y ago
Docs has a few big shortcomings in my experience. Like it can’t number headings and figures, and cross-reference to them.
- kevincox 2y ago
  What do you mean cross-reference to them? You can link to any heading. Just place your cursor on the heading and the page URL will update. You can then link to that either from within the document or externally.
  - benhurmarcel 2y ago
    You can’t write “see Figure 2 in Section 1.2.3” and have those numbers update automatically. This is used everywhere in academia and technical reports.
deathanatos 2y ago
The killer Slack feature is the ability to draw on the other end's screen. I really wish I had that sometimes in (small) Google Meet meetings, simply to avoid the "it's on your left. Your other left. Okay down 3 items. That was four items. Go up one. No, now you've gone up 2 items…" Or mid-prod outage trying to get some engineer to type a command to run for you, and they can't dictate from speech to terminal, because they don't know shell/Unix commands at all. Then I can just write the command on their screen, for them to copy character by character… (to some extent, chat solves this. To some extent. I also wish we could get some basic markdown.)
- eythian 2y ago
  Zoom has this also. It's pretty handy once in a while.

Meet and Google Docs are perfect Google products. I'm disapponted when people send me Zoom meetings or want to meet on Slack. Google Meet is a 10x better experience.

lawik 2y ago

Unless you need legible screen dharing of a code editor in my experience. Zoom is awful in many ways but blows Meet out of the water for our needs.

aniviacat 2y ago

Is it possible to use Google Meet without telling Google your phone number? I know that it's possible to use Zoom and Teams anonymously. But for Google Meet, I assume providing a (verified) phone number is required.

rav 2y ago
You can use it with just a personal Google account - does that require a phone number? Alternatively, someone with a Google account can create a meeting (https://meet.new https://meet.new) and send you the link, which you can join without any Google account at all.
- worthless-trash 2y ago
  I have never given my work my number, and yet meet seems to work for all my work meetings.

parpfish 2y ago

I love meet because of how well it’s integrated with google cal

gomox 2y ago
There's a Zoom plugin for GCal that makes Zoom's integration identical to Meet, including mobile app integration.
- parpfish 2y ago
  Good luck getting everyone in your company/org to successfully install an additional browser plugin

benhurmarcel 2y ago

Docs has a few big shortcomings in my experience. Like it can’t number headings and figures, and cross-reference to them.

kevincox 2y ago
What do you mean cross-reference to them? You can link to any heading. Just place your cursor on the heading and the page URL will update. You can then link to that either from within the document or externally.
- benhurmarcel 2y ago
  You can’t write “see Figure 2 in Section 1.2.3” and have those numbers update automatically. This is used everywhere in academia and technical reports.

deathanatos 2y ago

The killer Slack feature is the ability to draw on the other end's screen. I really wish I had that sometimes in (small) Google Meet meetings, simply to avoid the "it's on your left. Your other left. Okay down 3 items. That was four items. Go up one. No, now you've gone up 2 items…" Or mid-prod outage trying to get some engineer to type a command to run for you, and they can't dictate from speech to terminal, because they don't know shell/Unix commands at all. Then I can just write the command on their screen, for them to copy character by character… (to some extent, chat solves this. To some extent. I also wish we could get some basic markdown.)

eythian 2y ago
Zoom has this also. It's pretty handy once in a while.