<story><title>Google Docs New Feature: Pageless</title><url>https://support.google.com/docs/thread/150905607/google-docs-new-feature-pageless?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpkrjb</author><text>Have you ever tried to print a Notion document? It feels like they made the &amp;quot;Export to PDF&amp;quot; in a weekend. It&amp;#x27;s hugely underpowered and under-featured.&lt;p&gt;It feels like Notion&amp;#x27;s demographic just dont need to share documents as documents. Notion would likely have put more effort into that feature if they did.</text></item><item><author>lewisjoe</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m in the business of building an online word processor - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zoho.com&amp;#x2F;writer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zoho.com&amp;#x2F;writer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interesting how the documents industry is moving from print oriented legacy softwares (Google Docs, Word) to block based, app-ish, smart canvases (Notion, Coda, etc).&lt;p&gt;Also both Microsoft &amp;amp; Google have adopted completely different strategies to compete in this market. Microsoft launched Loop as an entirely new app while Google is incorporating these blocks as smart chips in Google Docs itself. Both strategies have their own pros and cons.&lt;p&gt;My bet is on Google Docs style, because this means a group that&amp;#x27;s already invested in traditional document making skills (legal professionals, academic professionals, etc) will be able to incrementally step up their game without their workflow being completely destroyed. Sure, this will slow down the pace with which Google Docs can innovate and evolve - but overall it helps the older generation to smoothly transition over to the new age document editing, which is great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jitl</author><text>&amp;gt; It feels like they made the &amp;quot;Export to PDF&amp;quot; in a weekend&lt;p&gt;Ah well, I built it in my first week or so as part of a hiring trial process, back when the company was 16 people in a remodeled auto body shop. Before that, the “PDF Export” feature just opened the browser print dialog.&lt;p&gt;One fun thing about working at a startup is that you solve a problem for 90% of your users, but after a while of user growth and demographic shift, that remaining 10% ends up being bigger than the original 90% was in raw numbers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Docs New Feature: Pageless</title><url>https://support.google.com/docs/thread/150905607/google-docs-new-feature-pageless?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpkrjb</author><text>Have you ever tried to print a Notion document? It feels like they made the &amp;quot;Export to PDF&amp;quot; in a weekend. It&amp;#x27;s hugely underpowered and under-featured.&lt;p&gt;It feels like Notion&amp;#x27;s demographic just dont need to share documents as documents. Notion would likely have put more effort into that feature if they did.</text></item><item><author>lewisjoe</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m in the business of building an online word processor - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zoho.com&amp;#x2F;writer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zoho.com&amp;#x2F;writer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interesting how the documents industry is moving from print oriented legacy softwares (Google Docs, Word) to block based, app-ish, smart canvases (Notion, Coda, etc).&lt;p&gt;Also both Microsoft &amp;amp; Google have adopted completely different strategies to compete in this market. Microsoft launched Loop as an entirely new app while Google is incorporating these blocks as smart chips in Google Docs itself. Both strategies have their own pros and cons.&lt;p&gt;My bet is on Google Docs style, because this means a group that&amp;#x27;s already invested in traditional document making skills (legal professionals, academic professionals, etc) will be able to incrementally step up their game without their workflow being completely destroyed. Sure, this will slow down the pace with which Google Docs can innovate and evolve - but overall it helps the older generation to smoothly transition over to the new age document editing, which is great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lf-non</author><text>I am not a big fan of notion, but printing a document (even as a pdf) is an increasingly niche usecase in an increasingly digital-only world and I can totally understand if they don&amp;#x27;t put in much effort into it.</text></comment>