You'll never have to wait to view a document because someone forgot to turn on sharing in Google Docs again. It's also easy to find any documents your team is working on. That shows the file in question along with the conversation about it, so you'll know right where to pick up the work. Team chat apps are one of the best ways to talk with everyone on your team—but they're also one of the most distracting apps you could use.
With conversations going on about everything all the time, it's easy to get pulled into far too many discussions and never get the actual work done. Chat tries to calm the storm a bit in a number of ways. First, you can choose which threads to follow.
Odds are, when you start a new conversation or participate in one, you'll want to get notified about it. Chat, by default, will send a push notification for every response to that thread.
You can quickly unfollow any thread using the Following button at the top-right of the thread. This gives you a quick way to unfollow threads you don't need notifications for.
You will also get notifications for any direct messages anyone sends you, or anytime someone mentions you in a thread. You can make things even calmer if you want. By default, Chat will notify you on web and mobile—and will send you an email of all your notifications if you haven't opened either app in over 12 hours.
If you don't want to be notified about conversations, or want to turn off all notifications, click the gear icon in the top right corner of Chat and select Settings.
From here you can configure your settings. Or, if one room is particularly chatty, click its menu and select Turn off notifications. That'll let you get notifications for mentions, along with conversations from other rooms, but will keep that room from distracting you. It's a calmer approach to chat. Here are the best extra features we've found in Google Chat, and how to get the most out of them.
If you've ever used Google Talk and Slack, you'll find both experiences combined in some ways in Google Chat. First, formatting. You can add italics and other formatting like in Google Talk and Google Docs comments. Need to correct something and want to strike out a word? Then, to add emoji to your Chat messages, type a : then start typing the name of your emoji as you would in Slack. Hangouts will start filtering through the emoji options; when you find the one you want, press Enter to add it to your message or just type its full name and add a colon on the other end.
Mentioning people in your message works like Google Docs comments and Slack: type an followed by the name of the person you want to mention. Chat will start filtering through the names of people in your company, with those in this room on the top and others you could invite on the bottom.
Press Enter to select the person you want. Sharing stuff is easy too. Paste links in a new conversation or reply box, and most of the time Chat will automatically show a preview of the image or a description of the article you shared. Ever need to edit a message? Google Chat isn't just for talking to people—it's also a great place to chat with your apps.
They can help you book meetings, find flights, poll your team, check your calendar, request time off, and much more.
In Chat you can add bots to a specific room or you can chat with them directly on your own. To find bots, click the search button in the top-left corner, then click Find a bot. You can add bots to rooms, or you can chat with them directly. These bots can be handy. Say you're planning a trip. The Kayak bot lets you ask about flights for an upcoming trip in real language, and it mostly gets things right. You can browse through the offerings, then click a flight that looks good and book it from Kayak's site.
Click on that option and you will see different locations from where you can select and attach your files. You can add files from your recent downloads or saved files, and you can also choose files from your Google Drive. You can also add files from your computer hard drive or desktop. These files may be documents, pdf, or videos.
You can add multiple files by just clicking on the attachment symbol again. Once you are done with your attachments, you will have to save the meeting. Once you click on the save option you will get notified about the participants you are sharing the files with. So no way to send any kind of file using Google Chat? AFAIK there isn't. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta.
New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Related 3. Hot Network Questions. Doesn't give much time for anyone who might want to try and chat with me through it. The user has to go to their webmail. With the desktop client: User switches on their machine and Google Desktop auto starts and auto logs them in.
Thanks for the update and info Alex. It's disappointing to hear that Google has shelved their desktop client. I know they want us using Chrome, but until they make their services work together in a unified and seamless manner I don't see it happening. This is another example, like bookmarks, where there are several implementations of the same service that don't provide the same functionality, don't have the same interaction, and give Google a very fragmented chaotic feel at times.
I hope Google will focus and unify their products across all platforms. Whenever a topic related with desktop client appears almost every post cries for a new release of desktop client with new features added. It's really weird for Google not to hear these. I don't want to believe that Google works for a full year to impement new features.
Google can and should develop new features like video chat and chat with multiple people into the desktop client. It's a very lovely tiny client with a wonderful uncluttered user interface which I think most people like.
Is it really possible to send files on Google chat. If it is so it will be great advantage. I am using only GTalk client, never web.
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