Google Docs

What do you like best?

The fact that google docs is integrated with the google ecosystem is a significant winner. Easy to Share, Collaborate & build a story with a group of people. For eg., when writing a marketing campaign brief, as a marketing manager you will have to collaborate with a visual designer, copywriter, Product manager to capture needs and feasibilities. Instead of doing back and forth with ideas, we seamlessly collaborate and get things done on the go.

What do you dislike?

Google docs don't have something like Grammarly to make the writing crisper.

On top of that, it's a bit trickly to format the doc and make it look beautiful. For eg., it's not easy to move the borders, change fonts, bold/unbold. While working with google docs, if there is a way to seamlessly link to Google slides and Google docs to import data point, graphs and data visualization, that would be a winner for me.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

You should go for it. It is a seamless yet brilliant product.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

- Structuring my thoughts. I use it as a whiteboard

- Collaborate with my team in real time. I share the doc with my team members, get them to review, share their thoughts in their own time, and use them to achieve the end outcome seamlessly.

- Another major benefit is that since it is such a popular tool, everyone in the industry uses it. Hence the language of the tool is already understood.

- Something that Microsoft word doesn't do and Google docs dooes is being an online document.