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Google Drive cloud storage and Google Docs cloud word processing, which many netizens are using, now have new alternatives. Proton. For your information, this is a Swiss technology company that emphasises privacy. Recently, the company launched Proton Docs, which claims to provide highly secure and end-to-end encrypted file creation and collaboration tools. So, what should you know about it?

Google recently announced how exactly they’re going to integrate their Generative AI into some of their products. This includes the ability where you can ask GMail to write your emails and cover letters, auto-generate summaries in Google Docs, automatically make presentations and so forth.  

If you’ve ever been lost for words at what to comment on a document by your colleague, then this new feature coming to Google Docs is made just for you. Currently rolling out to users, Google Docs now supports emoji reactions!

Announced via its Google Workspace Updates blog, Google said that the new feature provides users with a less formal alternative to comments when expressing their opinions. Furthermore, Google also confirmed that the feature supports all emojis available in the latest Emoji 14.0 release.

Google is rolling out a handy feature to its Microsoft Word alternative, Google Docs. As part of the "smart canvas" initiative, the platform will provide users with an email template by allowing them directly draft emails to be sent out via Gmail.

Editing documents can be a pain for those of us who don't have Microsoft Office. You either use free software that doesn't work as well or the functionally still-lacking Google Docs. Fortunately, Google has been working on improving the platform.

Converting PDF files to any text file can be troublesome sometimes, especially those that come with images. Today, Google begins to roll out a Google Docs update to make the process an easier and simpler one. The new update will benefit the conversion of a PDF file to a Google Docs file by bringing improvements in image imports, text styles, and formatting and layout conversion.

Google has been adding new features to its online platforms overtime. The one feature that would be useful for many is probably add-ons and it's about to be added to Google Workspace. Yesterday, Google confirmed that Docs, Sheets, and Slides will be getting an update that enables add-ons.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that dark mode is increasingly getting popular over the months, Instagram has it, so as WhatsApp and Facebook will have its own soon (third-party or lite version doesn't count). Now it seems that Android users will be getting dark mode too on some Google apps, which are the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides.

Those who frequently utilize Google Docs, Sheets and Slides on Android, will be pleased to know that Google plans to introduce dark mode to those features in the near future. While there is not much known in regards to the exact dates the dark mode will be available, we do know that it could be available most probably in a few weeks.