07/20/2020

Daily Buzz: Google’s Plan to Make Gmail More Like Slack

It is integrating video and chat elements into its redesign

In the coming months, your Gmail experience could be getting a lot chattier. And it has everything to do with added competition from Slack.

On Wednesday, Google revealed that it’s in the midst of a bold redesign of the platform that integrates each of its primary communication tools in the Gmail interface—email, chat, rooms (a form of group chat) and Meet (its video chat offering).

The company says that the goal is better integration of the tools—along with less switching among tabs.

“One thing we’ve heard again and again from our users is how switching between apps interrupts their flow—and their focus. That’s why in this new integrated experience, we’ve been thoughtful about how to help you work more fluidly,” the company’s Javier Soltero wrote in a blog post. “A few examples: You can quickly join a video call from a chat, forward a chat message to your inbox, create a task from a chat message—everything connects together in a way that makes it easy for you to manage the flow of your work and get more done.”

The company also revealed plans to further bring chat and video functionality into its office suite, G Suite. As The Next Web notes, this includes more in-depth integration with its cloud platform, Google Docs.

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