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Best Online Productivity Apps Words by Ren Alcantara
People have more or less hit their stride with the whole work-from-home thing, and that’s great. It helps keep things running, while still minimizing the risk to the workforce. It’s not always easy though. When once we could just look over to our seatmate to get clarification about something, now, it’s a little more complicated. As usual though, technology comes to the rescue. Magazine work is highly collaborative while also having a lot of time away from the desk, so we had a chance to adapt early. Here are some of the tools we use to make working away from the office a little easier.
Google Docs, Sheets, Photos Yes, technically, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Photos are all part of G Suite. The trio of Docs, Sheets, and Photos however, work hand-in-hand with drive for a totally seamless remote locating experience. With Docs, for example, we just open a file, save it into the necessary folder in Drive. Then, any time we edit the text for whatever reason, everyone who has access to the folder gets access to the latest version of the document. From there, it’s a simple matter of talling whomever needs it that there’s a new version up, or if they’re in the document at the same time, the changes will appear in real time. The same goes for Sheets, which we use for a variety of things such as tasking and making rough paginations for each month. Photos on the other hand, is a whole different kind of useful. With smartphones more than capable of taking magazine-quality photos, whenever we have a test drive or review that needs some shots, we can simply use our phones, back the photos up on drive, and produce a link that we can send to the art department, letting them access the full-resolution file without having to send it via any other service. This also makes backtracking and looking for additional photos so much easier, as all the photos are uploaded and neatly organized by date.
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