Google Wave: Reply Inline within a Blip

This easy and effective tip will add structure to your waves and ensure organization for your blips.

Wait, What’s a Blip?

A blip is a single conversation element that helps to build an individual wave. Whenever you reply within a wave you create a new, individual blip. I am going to teach you how to utilize the inline reply technique to create a nested, inline blip.

Well, How do I Use It?

First, identify the blip where you want to nest a reply.

Next, double click the last word in that blip.

Click reply and you will see a perfectly nested inline blip where you can neatly type out your response.

That’s it. Very simple and very effective.

But Can’t This be Easier?

Yes but not right now. I wish Google Wave had a more intuitive way of implementing inline blips. Unless your read about this technique somewhere or happen to accidentally double click the last word of a blip there is no natural way of knowing how to do this. That said, I trust that as time goes by Google will address all of these little usability issues one by one.