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# Google Chat: Use Reddit-style replies!
- URL: https://www.jeffsu.org/productivity-ping-70/
- Published: 2023-02-03T01:00:13.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T13:10:53.000Z
- Description: #70
- Author: Jeff
- Tags: #newsletter, Google Meet

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## 🤔 Why are you talking about Reddit?

Reddit users should be familiar with this “collapse-able” style of comments and replies:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/02/CleanShot-2023-02-02-at-19.00.13.gif)

I personally love this feature because you can see the top-voted comment and corresponding replies, then collapse the thread to quickly see the next top-voted comment etc.

## 💬 How is this related to Google Chat?

If you’re part of a ‘Space’ in Google Chat (i.e. group conversation), you can reply to a specific comment or question without disrupting the overall flow of the conversation:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/02/CleanShot-2023-02-02-at-19.03.44@2x.png)

## 📸 Instructions

Hover over the sentence you want to reply directly to, and click <Reply in thread>

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/02/image-1.png)

You can also bring up a list of all active threads by clicking the <Active Thread> icon in the top right corner

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2023/02/image-2.png)

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****Pro tip:** You have to create a new Space to enable this “Thread” feature since existing Spaces that didn’t have the “Thread” feature enabled won’t allow you to reply in thread

## ⌨️ Keyboard Shortcut

- ⌘ + G to open the Menu bar in a Space (CTRL + G for Windows users)

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