Before you turn on Meet's automatic notes: three things to settle in the calendar event
Some Meet note-taking settings can't be changed once someone has joined the call. Here is what to decide in the calendar event first — language, sharing scope, how it starts — and how to tell participants, following Google's help pages.
Keeping a Gemini Answer as a Dated PDF — Export to Docs, Then Freeze It with Apps Script
Gemini's Share & export menu has no PDF option. Here is how to export to Docs, freeze a dated PDF next to it with Apps Script, and avoid the getAs() file-naming trap.
Fine on Desktop, Blank on Safari: Four Things to Gather Before You Ask an AI to Diagnose It
After a shuffle, my lazy-loaded images never loaded again, but only in Safari on iPhone. Here is what to collect by hand before asking Gemini or any other model to diagnose a bug that does not reproduce on desktop, plus a request template you can paste.
When Gemini's Activity Setting Won't Change on a Work Account: Three Screens to Check First
If the Gemini app's Activity setting doesn't behave on a work or school account, check three places in order: your own screen, the admin console, and Vault. Includes a short message to send your admin and a line to draw before pasting customer details.
Keeping Money and Health Questions Out of Your History: Gemini Temporary Chat and the Settings to Check
Before you ask Gemini about household spending or a health worry, here is the order I use to check Temporary Chat and the Activity setting, so you can decide what gets kept and what doesn't.
Three Veo 3.1 previews stop on Oct 22. I started with an inventory of every call site
Three Veo 3.1 preview models shut down on Oct 22, with gemini-omni-1.1-flash as the listed replacement. Before swapping model names, here is a search script that finds every call site in a repo, and a config pattern that stops loudly after the deadline instead of drifting to another model.
Six Months After March's Gemini Features in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive: What I Kept and What I Dropped
A way to sort the Gemini features added to Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive in March 2026 into keep, hold and drop, based on whether you still use them every week in October.
Gem sharing stops in three places: the order I check when a shared Gem never shows up
When a shared Gem never reaches the other person, the block sits in the Gem itself, in the Admin console, or in Drive. Here is what stops where, who can unblock it, and the order I check.
The color label Gemini returned for the same wallpaper changed — and the model was not the reason
I counted color-label agreement across five ways of exporting the same wallpaper. Stripping the ICC profile was the worst of them. Here is how I pin the color space down before asking, and how I check the answers against a number I compute myself.
I edited the Drive doc, asked Gemini again, and it quoted the old sentence back
When Gemini answers from an outdated version of a Drive file, the file usually isn't the problem — the conversation is. Here's how sources stay attached for the whole conversation, why you can't remove one mid-thread, and what to do about partial reads.
Four New Steps Landed in Workspace Studio, and I Am Opening the Reply Ones a Week Later
Workspace Studio gained Drive copy and move steps plus Chat and email reply steps. Using the rollout dates, where admin controls arrive before the features, here is how I separate the reversible actions from the ones I cannot take back.
Two Ways to Make a Longer Shot in Gemini Omni 1.1, and Two Different Ways They Break
Omni 1.1 extends scenes in 10-second steps up to 40 seconds cumulative, and interpolates between a pinned first and last frame. Which one you use is decided before your first generation, not after. Here is the planner I run first and the drift check I run last.