One of Google Drive’s best features is its ability to let you collaborate with other people on a document in real time. I rounded up a few tips to help you get even more out of this online productivity platform.
Google Drive’s many and varied capabilities-from chat with collaborators in a document to the ability to automate your entire Drive-can sometime be surprising. Google changed the name again to Google Drive in April 2012, reflecting the ever-expanding goals and capabilities of the suite. Originally launched as Writely, a startup’s clever collaborative word processor, Google quickly acquired the app, changed the name to Google Docs, and released it as a new way to help people work together more efficiently using little more than a browser. Google Drive-formerly Google Docs-has come quite a way in nearly a decade of existence.