The Gmail app is getting even more useful for work, especially during the novel coronavirus pandemic, where more and more people have to work from home.https://covid19semtems.blogspot.com/Gmail’s Upcoming Redesign Focuses On Work Chat, Rolling Out Later This Year
Gmail is getting a redesign focused on work, confirmed Google.Google’s email app will include quick access to Chat, Meet, and Rooms.The update is rolling out to G Suite users later this year.Update: July 15, 2020 at 5:00 PM ET: Just a few hours after news broke about the new Gmail redesign, Google confirmed the news on its Google Cloud blog. The new version of Gmail is rolling out in an early access preview for G Suite users next week, while all G Suite users will get the redesign later this year.
The Verge reports that little will change for non-G Suite users, though Google says it is “actively thinking through how and when to bring this experience to the consumers who might want it.”
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Software engineer Tahin Rahman says he has discovered (via 9to5Google) upcoming slides from Google’s Cloud Next event that reveal a significant, work-focused redesign of Gmail on mobile and the web.
While Chat and Meet have already had some integration, such as a rollout for Meet for some iOS users, the new interface would weave Chat, Meet, and Rooms directly into the interface. You would see tabs for each service at the bottom of the screen on Android and iOS, while the web version would display relevant details from each in the side column.
The new Gmail would be smarter about conversations, too. It would “nudge” you on chats you’ve neglected for a while, and surface your most important rooms. On the web, you could edit documents alongside chats and participate in picture-in-picture video meetings that let you see more of what you’re discussing. Tabs could help you see shared files and tasks.
The slides also reference already-announced plans to upgrade Meet itself, including attendance checks, hand raising, custom backgrounds and Q&A sessions.
Google is expected to announce the Gmail overhaul next week during productivity sessions at Cloud Next, although it’s not certain when the new features would be widely available.
This wouldn’t be a completely surprising move for Google. It’s competing not just with multi-talented email apps like Microsoft’s Outlook, but a host of modern work tools and services like Slack and Microsoft Teams. An all-in-one app could give companies an incentive to rally around Google products instead of splitting their attention between multiple apps.
This also reflects the changing reality of the workplace. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many companies to require working from home, with some switching to permanent remote work. A more powerful Gmail app could be better-suited to staff who may never meet in person.
Next: The best email apps for Android
Gmail Redesign Turns It Into A One-stop Productivity Suite [Update: It’s Official]
reader comments 182 with 148 posters participating Share this storyShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditGmail with tons of extra controls. There are now sections for "Mail," "Chat," "Rooms," and "Meet." Tahin RahmanThe new mobile app, complete with all those new tabs. Tahin RahmanGmail will point out messages you're ignoring. Tahin RahmanThe "Chat" tab uses the dual-pane layout. Tahin RahmanVideo chat gets a picture-in-picture view. Tahin RahmanAll the old right-side panels are still here, so it's like every GSuite app in a single page. Tahin Rahman / Ron AmadeoIt looks like big changes are coming to Gmail. Twitter user Tahin Rahman posted leaked slides (first spotted by 9to5Google) detailing a merger between Gmail, Google Docs, Google Chat, and Google Meet that looks to be coming to the Web and mobile soon. Google's "Cloud Next 2020" conference kicked off yesterday and will be ongoing for the next three weeks, and we've heard rumors in the past detailing this exact thing, so the slides appear to have been leaked early.
The goal of all this looks to be turning Gmail into a one-stop-shop productivity site, where you can do Slack-style room-based chat or single chats, make video calls, edit documents, and send emails. The desktop site is getting extra controls in the top header and sidebar, while the main panel—which normally shows the inbox or a message—looks like it can be swapped out for other content, like a Google Doc. Meet video calls can be full-screened or float around in a picture-in-picture-style window. Don't forget, this is all in addition to the right-side panel that was introduced in the 2018 redesign, which also lets you open Google Calendar, Keep, and Tasks inside Gmail. With this design, it's like having every Google productivity app—Gmail, Chat, Meet, Calendar, Keep, and Tasks—crammed into a single page that makes you wonder why it's even called "Gmail" anymore.
Gmail has had a side-by-side two-panel view for a while, showing an Outlook-style inbox on the left and a message on the right. With this redesign, it looks like there's more of a focus on the two-panel view. The "Chats" page uses this two-panel view by default, and you can show "Chat," "Files," or "Tasks" in the left panel, with a document or something else living in the right panel. Google appears to be taking the layout of Gmail and using it for all sorts of other functionality.
The mobile Gmail app is getting revamped, too, with bottom tabs for "Mail," "Chat," "Rooms," and "Meet" all in the single Gmail app.
A sticky futureSince Gmail is one of Google's most popular and "sticky" products (meaning people spend a lot of time in it), it is often used as a trojan horse for less popular Google products. In this case, along with all the productivity stuff, Gmail is being used to boost Google Meet (the company's Zoom competitor) and Google Chat (the company's Slack clone, formerly Hangouts Chat). Both apps are victims of Google's need to constantly tear down and rebuild its messaging apps over and over again, making it hard to build any kind of user base. Chat and Meet are both pretty new and immature apps, and they weren't ready in time to ride the work-from-home video chat craze brought about by COVID-19.
Previously, we've seen Gmail get infected with Google+ and Google Buzz, back when Google was using Gmail to chase the last Internet fad, social media. The productivity additions make Gmail look way more complicated, but at least they fit some kind of reasonable workflow.
We'll probably hear more about this during Google Cloud Next, which is happening for the next three weeks. July 21 starts the "Productivity and collaboration" week, which sounds like a good spot to formally announce these changes. A talk called "Communication in G Suite: The future of Gmail, Chat, Meet, and More" sounds like the one to watch.
Update: Google makes it official
With the leak already out there, Google went ahead and made it official with a blog post titled "Introducing your new home for work in G Suite." The post reads "G Suite now intelligently brings together the people, content, and tasks you need to make the most of your time. We're integrating core tools like video, chat, email, files, and tasks, and making them better together, so that you can more easily stay on top of things, from anywhere."
There's also a video:
Part of the sales pitch appears to be that, by combining all of this stuff into a single app, it will be easy to let everyone else know when you're busy. For instance, if you have a call scheduled in Google Meet, your Chat profile can show that you are busy in a call. If you want to focus and turn off notifications for a few hours, a single control can mute incoming messages from all of these services.
The most important takeaway is that, for now, this is only for G Suite and not consumer versions of Gmail. Google told The Verge Gmail-integration-with-everything will launch this week as an "early access preview" for G Suite customers with a rollout to all G Suite accounts later this year. As for consumer accounts, Google told The Verge it is "actively thinking through how and when to bring this experience to the consumers who might want it.”
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Google announced a major redesign for Gmail that will be available to G Suite customers.The new Gmail app will integrate the Chat and Meet apps and will offer a Slack-like Room feature for real-time collaboration.Gmail’s Upcoming Redesign Focuses On Work Chat, Rolling Out Later This Year
Gmail is getting a redesign focused on work, confirmed Google.Google’s email app will include quick access to Chat, Meet, and Rooms.The update is rolling out to G Suite users later this year.Update: July 15, 2020 at 5:00 PM ET: Just a few hours after news broke about the new Gmail redesign, Google confirmed the news on its Google Cloud blog. The new version of Gmail is rolling out in an early access preview for G Suite users next week, while all G Suite users will get the redesign later this year.
The Verge reports that little will change for non-G Suite users, though Google says it is “actively thinking through how and when to bring this experience to the consumers who might want it.”
Original article: July 15, 2020 at 2:00 PM ET: Gmail could soon be a hub for all your work conversations — at least, if Google has its way.https://bloggergoogleblogbloggertemplet.blogspot.com/
Software engineer Tahin Rahman says he has discovered (via 9to5Google) upcoming slides from Google’s Cloud Next event that reveal a significant, work-focused redesign of Gmail on mobile and the web.
While Chat and Meet have already had some integration, such as a rollout for Meet for some iOS users, the new interface would weave Chat, Meet, and Rooms directly into the interface. You would see tabs for each service at the bottom of the screen on Android and iOS, while the web version would display relevant details from each in the side column.
The new Gmail would be smarter about conversations, too. It would “nudge” you on chats you’ve neglected for a while, and surface your most important rooms. On the web, you could edit documents alongside chats and participate in picture-in-picture video meetings that let you see more of what you’re discussing. Tabs could help you see shared files and tasks.
The slides also reference already-announced plans to upgrade Meet itself, including attendance checks, hand raising, custom backgrounds and Q&A sessions.
Google is expected to announce the Gmail overhaul next week during productivity sessions at Cloud Next, although it’s not certain when the new features would be widely available.
This wouldn’t be a completely surprising move for Google. It’s competing not just with multi-talented email apps like Microsoft’s Outlook, but a host of modern work tools and services like Slack and Microsoft Teams. An all-in-one app could give companies an incentive to rally around Google products instead of splitting their attention between multiple apps.
This also reflects the changing reality of the workplace. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many companies to require working from home, with some switching to permanent remote work. A more powerful Gmail app could be better-suited to staff who may never meet in person.
Next: The best email apps for Android
Gmail Redesign Turns It Into A One-stop Productivity Suite [Update: It’s Official]
reader comments 182 with 148 posters participating Share this storyShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditGmail with tons of extra controls. There are now sections for "Mail," "Chat," "Rooms," and "Meet." Tahin RahmanThe new mobile app, complete with all those new tabs. Tahin RahmanGmail will point out messages you're ignoring. Tahin RahmanThe "Chat" tab uses the dual-pane layout. Tahin RahmanVideo chat gets a picture-in-picture view. Tahin RahmanAll the old right-side panels are still here, so it's like every GSuite app in a single page. Tahin Rahman / Ron AmadeoIt looks like big changes are coming to Gmail. Twitter user Tahin Rahman posted leaked slides (first spotted by 9to5Google) detailing a merger between Gmail, Google Docs, Google Chat, and Google Meet that looks to be coming to the Web and mobile soon. Google's "Cloud Next 2020" conference kicked off yesterday and will be ongoing for the next three weeks, and we've heard rumors in the past detailing this exact thing, so the slides appear to have been leaked early.https://makemoneyonlinesar.blogspot.com/
The goal of all this looks to be turning Gmail into a one-stop-shop productivity site, where you can do Slack-style room-based chat or single chats, make video calls, edit documents, and send emails. The desktop site is getting extra controls in the top header and sidebar, while the main panel—which normally shows the inbox or a message—looks like it can be swapped out for other content, like a Google Doc. Meet video calls can be full-screened or float around in a picture-in-picture-style window. Don't forget, this is all in addition to the right-side panel that was introduced in the 2018 redesign, which also lets you open Google Calendar, Keep, and Tasks inside Gmail. With this design, it's like having every Google productivity app—Gmail, Chat, Meet, Calendar, Keep, and Tasks—crammed into a single page that makes you wonder why it's even called "Gmail" anymore.
Gmail has had a side-by-side two-panel view for a while, showing an Outlook-style inbox on the left and a message on the right. With this redesign, it looks like there's more of a focus on the two-panel view. The "Chats" page uses this two-panel view by default, and you can show "Chat," "Files," or "Tasks" in the left panel, with a document or something else living in the right panel. Google appears to be taking the layout of Gmail and using it for all sorts of other functionality.
The mobile Gmail app is getting revamped, too, with bottom tabs for "Mail," "Chat," "Rooms," and "Meet" all in the single Gmail app.
A sticky futureSince Gmail is one of Google's most popular and "sticky" products (meaning people spend a lot of time in it), it is often used as a trojan horse for less popular Google products. In this case, along with all the productivity stuff, Gmail is being used to boost Google Meet (the company's Zoom competitor) and Google Chat (the company's Slack clone, formerly Hangouts Chat). Both apps are victims of Google's need to constantly tear down and rebuild its messaging apps over and over again, making it hard to build any kind of user base. Chat and Meet are both pretty new and immature apps, and they weren't ready in time to ride the work-from-home video chat craze brought about by COVID-19.
Previously, we've seen Gmail get infected with Google+ and Google Buzz, back when Google was using Gmail to chase the last Internet fad, social media. The productivity additions make Gmail look way more complicated, but at least they fit some kind of reasonable workflow.
We'll probably hear more about this during Google Cloud Next, which is happening for the next three weeks. July 21 starts the "Productivity and collaboration" week, which sounds like a good spot to formally announce these changes. A talk called "Communication in G Suite: The future of Gmail, Chat, Meet, and More" sounds like the one to watch.
Update: Google makes it official
With the leak already out there, Google went ahead and made it official with a blog post titled "Introducing your new home for work in G Suite." The post reads "G Suite now intelligently brings together the people, content, and tasks you need to make the most of your time. We're integrating core tools like video, chat, email, files, and tasks, and making them better together, so that you can more easily stay on top of things, from anywhere."
There's also a video:
Part of the sales pitch appears to be that, by combining all of this stuff into a single app, it will be easy to let everyone else know when you're busy. For instance, if you have a call scheduled in Google Meet, your Chat profile can show that you are busy in a call. If you want to focus and turn off notifications for a few hours, a single control can mute incoming messages from all of these services.
The most important takeaway is that, for now, this is only for G Suite and not consumer versions of Gmail. Google told The Verge Gmail-integration-with-everything will launch this week as an "early access preview" for G Suite customers with a rollout to all G Suite accounts later this year. As for consumer accounts, Google told The Verge it is "actively thinking through how and when to bring this experience to the consumers who might want it.”
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After leaking online on Wednesday, Gmail’s first significant redesign since the major makeover a few years ago was announced. Gmail is indeed getting a few awesome features that will satisfy the needs of many people who have been working from home for several months because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Things aren’t going to change anytime soon, as the health crisis is far from over. Several companies have extended work from home policies, and some of them switched to online work only. A steady internet connection and access to the right apps will make working from home a little easier, and Google aims to increase your productivity by placing some of those must-have apps right inside Gmail. The good news is that all users included covered under a G Suite subscription will have access to the redesign and new features. The bad news is that the commercial version of Gmail will remain as is
Google announced the new Gmail features over on the Google Cloud blog but also on G Suite Updates.
What’s basically going to happen soon is that each G Suite Gmail account will include direct access to several other apps that Google makes. Aside from Gmail, you’ll get a Chat tab for texting, a Meet tab for video conferences, and a Rooms tab, which is essentially a different form of chatting.
Gmail already offers Chat and Meet integration, but this new initiative will take things to the next level. Everything will be available directly in Gmail, whether you access it on an Android phone or iPhone, and on the desktop.
Animation shows the new Gmail redesign available to G Suite customers. Image source: GoogleRooms is the only novelty here, a feature that lets you create chat rooms similar to what you might be doing in Slack or similar group chat apps. The feature will let you create rooms with members of your company, but also rooms with other third-parties.
Furthermore, rooms will include support for real-time collaboration on documents and to-do lists.
Gmail will also support third-party apps, including DocuSign, Salesforce, and Trello, just like you can expect on Slack and other similar services.
New Gmail mobile app for G Suite customers. Image source: GoogleOther neat tricks, including better search, “Do Not Disturb” and “Out of Office” modes, and support for pinning important rooms are also included in the package.
What Google is trying here is to offer a unified space for all the productivity apps you might need when working from home, and even the office. G Suite’s Gmail will include a built-in alternative to Slack, as well as Google’s Zoom rival. It’s actually not surprising to see Google consolidate all these resources under the same roof. The move will make plenty of sense to G Suite users who are already relying on Google’s productivity apps for work-related chores. Those people who prefer competing platforms might not transition to the new Gmail, just because it’s better. And there may be an argument from some of these competitors that Google is promoting its own apps and stifling competition.
You’ll have to be on G Suite to use them. Google will start rolling out the Gmail redesign gradually over the coming weeks. The following video preview goes through some of the new features Google announced.
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Gmail’s Upcoming Redesign Focuses On Work Chat, Rolling Out Later This Year
Gmail is getting a redesign focused on work, confirmed Google.Google’s email app will include quick access to Chat, Meet, and Rooms.The update is rolling out to G Suite users later this year.Update: July 15, 2020 at 5:00 PM ET: Just a few hours after news broke about the new Gmail redesign, Google confirmed the news on its Google Cloud blog. The new version of Gmail is rolling out in an early access preview for G Suite users next week, while all G Suite users will get the redesign later this year.
The Verge reports that little will change for non-G Suite users, though Google says it is “actively thinking through how and when to bring this experience to the consumers who might want it.”
Original article: July 15, 2020 at 2:00 PM ET: Gmail could soon be a hub for all your work conversations — at least, if Google has its way.https://blogsitesblogg.blogspot.com/
Software engineer Tahin Rahman says he has discovered (via 9to5Google) upcoming slides from Google’s Cloud Next event that reveal a significant, work-focused redesign of Gmail on mobile and the web.
While Chat and Meet have already had some integration, such as a rollout for Meet for some iOS users, the new interface would weave Chat, Meet, and Rooms directly into the interface. You would see tabs for each service at the bottom of the screen on Android and iOS, while the web version would display relevant details from each in the side column.
The new Gmail would be smarter about conversations, too. It would “nudge” you on chats you’ve neglected for a while, and surface your most important rooms. On the web, you could edit documents alongside chats and participate in picture-in-picture video meetings that let you see more of what you’re discussing. Tabs could help you see shared files and tasks.
The slides also reference already-announced plans to upgrade Meet itself, including attendance checks, hand raising, custom backgrounds and Q&A sessions.
Google is expected to announce the Gmail overhaul next week during productivity sessions at Cloud Next, although it’s not certain when the new features would be widely available.
This wouldn’t be a completely surprising move for Google. It’s competing not just with multi-talented email apps like Microsoft’s Outlook, but a host of modern work tools and services like Slack and Microsoft Teams. An all-in-one app could give companies an incentive to rally around Google products instead of splitting their attention between multiple apps.
This also reflects the changing reality of the workplace. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many companies to require working from home, with some switching to permanent remote work. A more powerful Gmail app could be better-suited to staff who may never meet in person.
Next: The best email apps for Android
Gmail Redesign Turns It Into A One-stop Productivity Suite [Update: It’s Official]
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Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditGmail with tons of extra controls. There are now sections for "Mail," "Chat," "Rooms," and "Meet." Tahin RahmanThe new mobile app, complete with all those new tabs. Tahin RahmanGmail will point out messages you're ignoring. Tahin RahmanThe "Chat" tab uses the dual-pane layout. Tahin RahmanVideo chat gets a picture-in-picture view. Tahin RahmanAll the old right-side panels are still here, so it's like every GSuite app in a single page. Tahin Rahman / Ron AmadeoIt looks like big changes are coming to Gmail. Twitter user Tahin Rahman posted leaked slides (first spotted by 9to5Google) detailing a merger between Gmail, Google Docs, Google Chat, and Google Meet that looks to be coming to the Web and mobile soon. Google's "Cloud Next 2020" conference kicked off yesterday and will be ongoing for the next three weeks, and we've heard rumors in the past detailing this exact thing, so the slides appear to have been leaked early.
The goal of all this looks to be turning Gmail into a one-stop-shop productivity site, where you can do Slack-style room-based chat or single chats, make video calls, edit documents, and send emails. The desktop site is getting extra controls in the top header and sidebar, while the main panel—which normally shows the inbox or a message—looks like it can be swapped out for other content, like a Google Doc. Meet video calls can be full-screened or float around in a picture-in-picture-style window. Don't forget, this is all in addition to the right-side panel that was introduced in the 2018 redesign, which also lets you open Google Calendar, Keep, and Tasks inside Gmail. With this design, it's like having every Google productivity app—Gmail, Chat, Meet, Calendar, Keep, and Tasks—crammed into a single page that makes you wonder why it's even called "Gmail" anymore.
Gmail has had a side-by-side two-panel view for a while, showing an Outlook-style inbox on the left and a message on the right. With this redesign, it looks like there's more of a focus on the two-panel view. The "Chats" page uses this two-panel view by default, and you can show "Chat," "Files," or "Tasks" in the left panel, with a document or something else living in the right panel. Google appears to be taking the layout of Gmail and using it for all sorts of other functionality.
The mobile Gmail app is getting revamped, too, with bottom tabs for "Mail," "Chat," "Rooms," and "Meet" all in the single Gmail app.
A sticky future
Since Gmail is one of Google's most popular and "sticky" products (meaning people spend a lot of time in it), it is often used as a trojan horse for less popular Google products. In this case, along with all the productivity stuff, Gmail is being used to boost Google Meet (the company's Zoom competitor) and Google Chat (the company's Slack clone, formerly Hangouts Chat). Both apps are victims of Google's need to constantly tear down and rebuild its messaging apps over and over again, making it hard to build any kind of user base. Chat and Meet are both pretty new and immature apps, and they weren't ready in time to ride the work-from-home video chat craze brought about by COVID-19.
Previously, we've seen Gmail get infected with Google+ and Google Buzz, back when Google was using Gmail to chase the last Internet fad, social media. The productivity additions make Gmail look way more complicated, but at least they fit some kind of reasonable workflow.
We'll probably hear more about this during Google Cloud Next, which is happening for the next three weeks. July 21 starts the "Productivity and collaboration" week, which sounds like a good spot to formally announce these changes. A talk called "Communication in G Suite: The future of Gmail, Chat, Meet, and More" sounds like the one to watch.
Update: Google makes it official
With the leak already out there, Google went ahead and made it official with a blog post titled "Introducing your new home for work in G Suite." The post reads "G Suite now intelligently brings together the people, content, and tasks you need to make the most of your time. We're integrating core tools like video, chat, email, files, and tasks, and making them better together, so that you can more easily stay on top of things, from anywhere."
There's also a video:
Part of the sales pitch appears to be that, by combining all of this stuff into a single app, it will be easy to let everyone else know when you're busy. For instance, if you have a call scheduled in Google Meet, your Chat profile can show that you are busy in a call. If you want to focus and turn off notifications for a few hours, a single control can mute incoming messages from all of these services.
The most important takeaway is that, for now, this is only for G Suite and not consumer versions of Gmail. Google told The Verge Gmail-integration-with-everything will launch this week as an "early access preview" for G Suite customers with a rollout to all G Suite accounts later this year. As for consumer accounts, Google told The Verge it is "actively thinking through how and when to bring this experience to the consumers who might want it.”
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