Google Workspace Wednesday

Issue #164 / 05-AUG-26

Visual screenshots now included in Google Meet meeting notes

Google is improving the ‘Take notes for me’ feature in Google Meet by giving you the ability to automatically capture and include screenshots of presented content directly in the meeting notes document. While meeting transcripts capture what is said, they often miss critical visual context, like content that was presented. Without these visuals, notes can lack necessary detail or be confusing if a speaker refers to a chart or diagram without describing it out loud.

Use Gemini in Google Forms to quickly create a new quiz

“Help me create” in Google Forms now supports generating quizzes. With this launch, you can quickly create a quiz by writing a specific prompt for Help me create describing the quiz you want to create. Your prompt can reference Google Drive files like Docs, Slides or PDFs to use as sources for the quiz, should you choose.

Prevent accidental disclosures with new Reply All BCC warnings in Gmail

To help protect your privacy and ensure intentional communication, Google is introducing a new caution notification in Gmail. This feature is designed to prevent accidental information disclosure by alerting users when they are about to "Reply All" to a thread where they were originally BCC’ed.

Provide more clear, contextual feedback with timestamped comments in Google Drive videos

Timestamped comments for videos are now available in Google Drive on the web. Users can anchor comments to a specific time mark in a video, making video collaboration more direct, precise, and contextual. When reviewing a video file, you can choose between adding a timestamped comment or a general file-level comment using a split button in the commenting interface. Each comment generates a visual marker directly on the video player timeline. Clicking a marker jumps to that point in the video and highlights the associated comment.

Create and import scatter charts with multiple x-series in Google Sheets

Google Sheets now supports creating and editing scatter charts with multiple independent x-series. This update allows users to map separate data series to their own unique x-axis, rather than forcing all series in a single chart to share the same horizontal axis domain. Additionally, this feature improves import and export compatibility with Microsoft Excel.

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