D (3:15)

Yeah, so I mean there's been the email summary AI tool for a while now and that's, you know, that can be useful. But Gemini is really, they're, they're really tapping into some of the capabilities now, which is really cool. I recently did a Google Meet with a potential client and had Gemini summarize the whole meeting. So, you know, about five minutes after our call, Gemini automatically spit out basically an exact summary of what we talked about with bullet points. Super helpful, super amazing. So that's one feature I really love.

C (3:53)

You gotta stop there for a second. I didn't realize they did that. There are so many startups that are like, like that is basically what their entire startup is doing. I'm thinking of like Firefly and all these note taker ones. Okay. When did they roll that out? And like is there a special button? Do you have to have a special. Do you have to be like a premium user? Like can anybody do this?

D (4:10)

That's a great question. Yeah, so this, I mean, I guess I didn't really realize it was that new a feature, but it must be. So. Yeah. Cause I've had, I've done, you know, zoom calls before or even a Google Meet and there'll be like a third party joined and it's like the third party note taking app. But this now because I'm so I'm signed up for Gemini Pro or I don't Know what it's called? Premium. The $20 a month plan. Because I've been doing some VO3 video generating. So I think part of that is some additional features with Gemini. This one was a note taker. So basically right before the meeting, I just had, do you want Gemini to take notes? And I said, yes, and then it immediately did all that for me. So. And then boom, pops me an email right after the meeting with a full summary. Super helpful stuff. So that's one thing that I practically have been using and has been really cool in the past. You know, that was last week. I did that. So. But so they're basically taking all the tools and integrating now Gemini and taking them to the next level. So one of the examples they gave is, you know, if you had. There was an HOA meeting and you wanted to, you know, draft an email, help me create something from. Yeah, drafting a newsletter from the HOA meeting. You know, from the stuff we talked about. It basically would be able to pop that out for you, format it and have it look nice and professional. It seems like they're going to be able to integrate, you know, making graphs and things into their summaries now too, which is really cool. Jane, what do you think about all of this?

C (5:40)

Okay, so the first thing I want to say is I absolutely hate the example that they give of the Jan, like the HOA meeting. Like, for example, you can get it to draft a newsletter for your neighborhood association, whoever works at Google that is on the HOA board. I hate you. Just kidding. But, like, sort of. I don't ever want to read an HOA newsletter. I just don't want to hear from them. Okay, I'll spare you my hoa. My HOA gripes. Dude. My HOA bill for random weeds I had two years ago is. Is still in the mail. So anyways, yeah, Arizona HOAs are crazy. Getting over that. I do think that the use case on documents is really cool if you're. If you're following on YouTube, you can see me sharing my screen and showing you what that, like, looks like. Exactly. But they'll have a bubble that comes at the bottom of your document and you're like, working with it to. To write inside of docs. I think this is important because everyone was doing this already. They were just going to chat GPT getting it to write things, and they're pasting it into Google Docs. I do this as well. Like, Google Docs is my place where I kind of organize and sort things. I know. It's like where all My documents are saved. ChatGPT, I think tried to do some sort of document like features inside. But like no one goes to Chat GPT to like look for your docs. You don't have like a big folder of all your docs in there that are easily accessible that most people are using. And maybe that's in there somewhere that I'm unaware of. But Google Docs is kind of the place where it goes together. So why would they make you all go over to, you know, chatgpt to generate it? You should just be able to generate it right inside of docs. I think this is fantastic. They have a couple of features in here that I do think are cool that people will use. One of them is to match writing style. It's a new feature that can like if you have one document with a writing style in their example, they're like, if you have like a travel document. But I think more likely I might write like a memo for my company or I might write up a blog post or a podcast script and you know, I put a lot of time and energy into making this exactly how I want. Then I go get ChatGPT to write another one that's like something similar, but it just doesn't sound like me. Right? So being able to use this kind of match writing style and have it look, this is what I sound like, match this writing style. That to me is amazing. They also have one for matching a format. I kind of hate the example we've heard it is. The most overused example is travel itineraries. I don't know if that's just something that people do a lot or. Or what, but anyways, so I'm going to try to think of another example. Let's say you have a blog post in a specific format where you have specific bullet points, you have specific ways you do your SEO inside of that document or like a newsletter that you send out, you can have it match the example one. So I think this is really cool. The both of those are awesome features I'd be excited for. They of course, just have helped me write. And I'm going to be honest, I've actually inside of Gmail a lot. I don't know if you use this, Jamie, but I've been using this a lot inside of Gmail. Half the time it's voice to text on my phone. If I'm on the go, you can highlight it and just say, polish this and Gemini will just like rewrite it. But to be more polished or more professional. I appreciate that because I just want to express things the way I want to express them, but they're not always the most, like, polished or clear. My wife always complains about my grammar and punctuation, so this is a lifesaver for myself. I'm sure maybe that's not a problem for everyone in the world, but for me, it's amazing. And so it doesn't, like, change it a lot, but it will just kind of polish it and format it nicer. So I appreciate that and actually use that feature a lot in Gmail.

D (9:05)

Yeah, that's cool. I think. You know, I love that they are integrating Gemini so much with these tools that we've used for years and know how to. So it's really. I think they're complementing it really well and it feels natural, a lot of these integrations. So, yeah, I'm pretty excited about it.

C (9:23)

Something else that's cool is over on Sheets. They're doing something where you can have Gemini generate a fully editable slide in your deck. Now, ChatGPT tried to do something sort of like this where they have their Canva integration, which, I'm not gonna lie, isn't that great. So I think Google might clean up this industry. Canvas integration might not be great, although Canva's traffic has, like, quadrupled with this ChatGPT integration, which is hilarious. So it's been a good marketing push for canva, but I think Google for Like Sheets is going to crush it here. They can generate a fully editable slide in your deck. It's going to match the overall theme. It's going to draw from column context of all of your files, your emails, everything on the web, everything Google knows about you. If you don't like the slide, you can ask Gemini to adjust it. You could say something like, match the colors to the rest of my deck, make this more minimal. I mean, basically, this is the way I think all software is going in the future. It's how I use Lovable. I just am sitting there chatting with it on the side, telling it how to edit and change things, and it's doing that. And I think that's how people are going to build decks and work with spreadsheets. And so you're able to just kind of talk with it. And it will. It will. It'll kind of edit all of that on the go, which, yeah, by the way, for anyone. I recently gave a whole thing about why you should make a pitch deck on our school community. And I think using this new integration on Sheets is a great tool to help you get that pitch deck done. Just low PSA for everyone.

D (10:41)

Yeah, for sure. You know, I think a lot of these tools are going to increase productivity and change the way we work. It's already kind of funny when they had that lovable. Had a. On Sunday, they had a free day. So they didn't. You didn't use any credits. So I was on there for like six hours. But, you know, I was working on three different projects at once. So after I gave my command, you know, my prompt for the one app, I would go work on this other one. And so, you know, I had different tabs open at once. But if you think about it, that productivity is 3x. You know, I mean, it's probably 300x actually what I could have done before. But the fact that, you know, that you have all these things working for you, this I think is another example of that. You know, you don't have to spend, you know, an hour making a PowerPoint presentation or you know, a pitch deck for based off a conversation you had. You know, you can have it be already customized to the specific person you're. You're reaching out to. And you know, I. It's just a huge productivity SA time saver and I'm excited about it.

C (11:46)

Yeah, it's amazing. The other thing that I think is cool, a new feature they're adding is inside of Google Drive, just the search inside of Drive. I basically love the concept of making all search AI search now because it can just be so much more rich. And they're doing that with Drive where if you say something like, you know, find the customer feedback document from the winter campaign last year instead of like, in the past search wasn't able to pull that up, but now it understands the context of every document. It's. It scrolls through them. I actually realized my favorite, my first sample of what this search looked like was on Chat GPT when I was just searching for conversations in Chat GPT. I'm so used to like the old archaic search where you have. I would have to try to think of like keywords of things I said and then like try to put that keyword in and it's almost like command F and it's just searching for that keyword and everything that is old ghetto search news AI. Beautiful, amazing search. Thank you. Google inside of your docs is like describe something roughly what you're sort of looking for and it will be able to like piece through what everything says and is about and pull it up for you. And it's more, it's less of like here's a list of documents, but it's like, you know, it's showing you like different documents, it's showing you different slides, showing you different spreadsheets that any of these could possibly be what you're looking for. It basically makes you an AI overview of your search. And so to me, that is, hallelujah, amazing. Way more useful.

D (13:06)

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