Google Docs

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I've been a user of Google Docs since launch by choice and still use it by choice”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-20

• “Google docs serves my word processing needs, then again I don't do anything at home that wasn't already possible in Word 2.0 for Windows 3.1, Wordpad, or AmigaWriter.”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “The export to google docs in Gemini deep research is tough to beat too.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-20

• “Google remaps CMD-G in Google Docs to launch some LLM bullshit”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-03

• “Google Docs has the same issue. They ask you to install of Google Docs Offline chrome extension to fix it.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-26

• “google docs has converted this to — forever. like literally since V1.0”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-23

• “I use Office applications primarily now instead of Google Docs.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-10

• “like Google docs it's painful to use the web version so I just use the app”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-06

• “I've switched to Word akin to how I used to do it with Google Docs as that works much better”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-04

• “got frustrated by how many tools it takes just to read a script on camera. Write in Google Docs, copy to a teleprompter app, open OBS for recording, lose all your pacing notes along the way.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-03

• “I would be very pissed and wouldn't care if it's Drive or Docs that is the problem underneath I still can't use Google Docs as a service at that point”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-31

• “Just throw the text into google docs, it's really not that hard.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-25

• “I tend to get to the limits of Google Docs/Sheets rather quickly. It may cover 99% of my needs, but Office gives me the missing 1%.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-24

• “I don't do anything too "serious" as far as writing documents that Google Docs can't handle”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-20

• “So much easier. I know Google gets a bad rep because of weird perceptions about surveillance, but no one does cloud syncing better. And because most of their software is browser based, it does basically "just work".”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-20

• “I got tired of writing Google Docs every time someone asked "where do I click?"”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-17

• “Take the Google Docs suggestion as a sign that you shouldn't be writing that sentence at all”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-16

• “writing a draft in Google Docs and accepting most [2] of the corrections is fine”

  LUKEWARM · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-11

• “I was losing my best ideas. Notes scattered across Notion, Google Docs, Apple Notes, Discord messages, random text files and customization loopholes. By the time I needed them, they were gone—buried in forgotten folders or replaced by newer notes.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-07

• “This problem has been haunting me for years, except in Google Docs. At some point, some template my team used had slightly gray text, and I STILL find it cropping up in our most recent documents.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-06

• “Google Docs seems to handle docx much better than markdown from what I've seen”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-05

• “i missed annotations, discussions and realtime collab and often switched to googledocs”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-05

• “Outline I actually like better than Google Docs for most things”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-27

• “replacing something simpler like Google docs looks very much simpler, and surely should suffice?”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-25

• “Google only covers "most of it", so even if it covers 99% of use cases, for that cases where it doesn't, companies still need MS Office”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-25