Google recently launched Tables https://tables.area120.google.com/u/0/about#/ . Did anyone tried or can compare to other tools like Notion?
Google’s in-house incubator Area 120 is today introducing a new work-tracking tool, Tables, which aims to make tracking projects more efficient by investing in automation. Instead of simply tracking notes and tasks associated with a project in various documents that have to be manually updated by team members
I'd love to try Tables but it's currently US-only. Launching products globally isn't a moonshot Google is interested in.
So far I've run across a couple of opposite opinions. @benlcollins shared his favourable early experience with Google Tables. At the other end of the spectrum, in the Sep 24, 2020 issue of the Indie Hackers newsletter @channingallen wrote:
I think the real value of Tables will be its deep integration with G Suite and Google's cloud machine learning tools, and that's a really attractive proposition. So I think the target market will be businesses already using G Suite, where it'll be a really nice product to sit alongside Sheets for workflow management.
For me personally, I've been using it in alpha for a while and it has replaced Trello in my tool stack.
I have very little experience with Notion, so not sure how similar it is.
Thanks. I'm interested in the integration with the Google ecosystem too.
I played a bit with Notion. It's indeed an advanced and nice platform, a tool for making tools from building blocks. But it's perhaps a bit overwhelming, particularly for users of traditional office suites and productivity tools.
This comment really made me laugh - cleverly worded. However, I believe @csallen may want to restate this position in 36 months. ;-) These two comments are why ...
Google openly tests many products which never become mainstream, but given the vast investments and competitive landscape of the no-code movement, I have a hunch Tables will garner paying users almost immediately (I have 20 clients who saw it last week; 11 upgraded their teams to paying users).
Immediate [paid] adoption is a strong indication of rapid acceptance into Google's mainstream collection of business tools, so Tables is likely to be sustained.
As far as I can remember, Tables is indeed the first experimental, Area 120 Google product with a paid tier.
I'm looking for a similar scrip for my macro program. I'm running a project of table saw guide and need help to improve it.