Hi, my name is Bryce and I live in Australia. I was invited here by google support to put forward my ideas to which there is currently no solution. I'm not sure if this is the right area to be putting forward these ideas or if it's simply for an introduction so I have merged the introduction and the problems I have together. Please point me in the right direction if I should be posting my ideas elsewhere!!
I work on a tug boat within a team of 6, bringing ships in and out of port. We work for 28 days straight and then have 28 days off. The team is split in to two crews of three and whilst one crew is working their 28 days, the other crew is off. I have two problems that I would like to put forward some solutions to hopefully be actioned and in turn, resolve them.
Problem 1:
We have found that the best way for us to record and communicate important information is through a diary on Google docs which is saved on Google drive and shared to the team so everyone has access. Here lies the problem! The internet on a Tug boat at sea is not the best and whilst very slow, can have a tendency to cut in and out (think back to the dial up days with multiple incoming calls always cutting you off!!!). This is especially frustrating when opening Google docs to make an entry in to the diary. We have hundreds of pages in the Diary which gives us a history of the Tug from day one - problems we have had, machinery failures, appointments for contractors to come and make repairs etc etc. Each time we open the diary in Google Docs, it opens at the top of page 1 and we have to wait for the internet to catch up and load the pages to allow us to scroll to the bottom of the page. Here's my ideas:
Solution 1 - Make a function to enable Google docs to open where you left off typing each time you open it. This could be a toggle button to turn it on and off for those who prefer or require Docs to open at the top of page 1.
Solution 2 - Make a function to allow users to invert a google doc. Again a toggle switch or setting could be applied to turn this feature on and off. By inverting the Doc, I mean flip it so that what was the last page is now page one and what was page one is now the last page. When you start typing after inverting the doc, the text would be at the top of page one but still flow downwards line by line, the same way as if it were not inverted.
Problem 2 - We currently have no way of knowing if someone who has read/write access rights has amended an individual document we have saved in the share drive. Whilst we can check the version history which has a wealth of knowledge in terms of who has opened and modified a document, including date , time and even highlights/crosses out the changes made, there is no option to set up a notification for the group who has access to this document/drive, meaning we have to constantly keep checking documents to see if changes have been made, which with our superfast kbit/min internet is also frustrating!!!
There is already a notification option which you can toggle on/off to enable email notifications be sent out to all who has access to the drive when an individual comment has been made to a document but currently there is no option for the above mentioned.
Solution - Make a function to allow users the ability to toggle on/off email notifications for each time an individual document in the shared drive is accessed and or modified. This would allow us to then open the document and see what changes had been made once we receive the email notification showing a date and time the document was modified/accessed..
Please make this happen for us!!!
Thanks.
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