Not content material to merely be an app that excels at messaging, Slack has revealed it’s coming for Google’s workplace instruments crown with its new Canvas characteristic, first announced in September 2022.
The thought is that, as a result of any messaging app within the office is a fast-moving, principally irrelevant cacophony, canvases (primarily particular person paperwork, assume Google Docs) will permit for storing and rapidly referring to info.
Per The Verge (opens in new tab), the Canvas rollout has now begun, though our fast inner group survey discovered not all Slack customers have acquired it simply but, so some customers could have to attend that little bit longer.
Not that it actually issues: in case your office makes use of Slack, it’s most likely as a result of it’s notable as an excellent messaging app that, for a time, supplied options Google Chat simply didn’t, like threaded conversations, @ mentions, or (admittedly a much less earth-shattering growth) emoji reactions.
It’s more of an equal playing field now, but when your office began utilizing Slack as a result of it excels in messaging greater than every other space, it most likely additionally makes use of one other productivity tool higher designed for producing, organizing and sharing paperwork, like Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
What’s more odd is that Slack does permit for integration with the third get together functions, resembling Google Drive, that you simply already use at work. Did we want this? Truthfully? Are software program firms so devoid of concepts that they only must do the whole lot now?
Even Ali Rayl, Slack’s Product SVP, says “Google Docs 100% nonetheless has a spot in our universe.” It’s handy, possibly, to have primarily an similar, if much less good model of it straight in Slack, however good luck getting your colleagues to undertake one or the opposite. Put together for chaos. Civil struggle.
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