How Fellow and Google Docs compare, feature by feature

Core Features
1-on-1s	Yes	No
Meetings	Yes	Yes
Calendar Integration	Office 365 Google	Google
Feedback	Yes	No
Non-Meeting Notes	Private and Shared Streams	Yes
Place to manage todos	Yes	No
Templates	Built in and custom	Yes
OKRs	Yes (beta)	No

Apps and Integrations
Mobile App	iOS and Android	iOS and Android
Desktop App	macOS and Windows	No
Browser Extensions	Chrome and Firefox	No
Integrations	Asana Google Meet HRIS (Bamboo, Workday, GSuite, Office 365) HubSpot Jira Loom MS Teams Salesforce Slack Zapier (with Zapier can connect to Clickup, Trello, etc.) Zoom	Various integrations available from other services via the Google Workspace Marketplace

Sharing
Guest Users	Yes	Yes
Public Links	Yes	Yes
Share notes via …	Email GoogleDocs Slack MS Teams HubSpot Salesforce Print or PDF	Email Print or PDF Downloadable in various file types

Additional Capabilities
Dark Mode	Yes	Yes
Create/Modify Calendar Events	Yes	Not directly in Google Docs
Search	Yes	Yes
Automations	Time-Saver Pre-Meeting Reminders Post-Meeting Recaps	No

Key Differences Between Fellow and Google Docs

1 Purpose built to help teams run productive meetings

Fellow and Google Docs both offer collaborative note-taking; however, Fellow is designed for meeting notes. This emphasis on meetings helps ensure that you, and your team, have more engaging and productive meetings from the moment you sign up. It’s the perfect tool to organize and collaborate on meeting agendas, track action items, exchange feedback, and more.

In the same way that you wouldn’t use Google Sheets as your CRM at scale, it doesn’t make sense to use GoogleDocs for your meeting agendas.

BONUS: If you’ve ever had a hard time coming up with conversation ideas for 1-on-1 meetings, the suggested questions in Fellow will help you identify talking points. Fellow has this functionality because it’s purpose built for meetings and one-on-ones.

2 A side by side view of your calendar and meeting notes

Finding meeting notes in a sea of Google Docs is painful. If you’re managing 1-on-1 meeting notes for all your direct reports in a series of Google Docs, it can even escalate to a nightmare!

But with Fellow, your meeting notes are linked directly to your calendar events. Fellow automagically links related notes – recurring meetings have the entire meeting note history in one long stream, while notes for your 1-on-1s are grouped by person. It is automatic – no need to spend time organizing files.

3 Team wide consistency and accountability

Where Fellow really outshines Google Docs is in its ready-to-use meeting templates. From skip level to one-on-one meetings, design sprints to daily stand-ups, we’ve built hundreds of templates for you to browse, use, and customize. Or you can create your own and save them to your company account.

Besides consistency, Fellow also build accountability with action items. While it’s true that Google Docs allows you to assign action items to folks inside the doc, there’s no way to aggregate your to-dos across multiple docs. Fellow tracks all of your action items from every meeting you have and organizes them for you in a central location. Your team will know who needs to do what by when.

The simple ways Fellow makes meetings delightful

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Use a Time Saving Template

Build Your Agenda

Record Meeting Notes Collaboratively

Assign Action Items for Accountability

Organize Your Ideas in Streams

Exchange Feedback

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  Use a Time Saving Template

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  Build Your Agenda

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  Record Meeting Notes Collaboratively

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  Assign Action Items for Accountability

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  Organize Your Ideas in Streams

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  Exchange Feedback