Earlier quoted context omitted.
All of a sudden I want a Quake Office Suite.
You mean Quake LAN parties aren't part of everyone's standard office software?!
It used to be at my corporate, and then it got too corporate :(
Dropbox Paper
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#102This reminds me of OneNote on the web. With fancier animations, and less functionality.
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#103What about that office suite that does the same and much more, in a much prettier way, which even includes full-featured embedded spreadsheets in the documents? I mean Quip: https://quip.com/
I thought Quip was a relatively small company and I liked them for that. But now somehow they have a SALESFORCE brand.
Salesforce acquired Quip last year.
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#104At Monzo where I work, we use Dropbox Paper quite extensively for internal RFC's in the engineering team. We'd probably prefer to use a Google product since the rest of the company uses Drive so heavily, but Docs is simply atrocious when you need to insert some code.
Why don't you use GitHub (or similar) and markdown documents etc for this?
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#105All these lovely services in the comments that I would love to use at work, but I can't because, I'm in the UK, working with somewhat sensitive personal data and there is no way we can commit that stuff to a data centre in the U.S somewhere these days. I'm not sure what the solution is, other than letting people self-host.
Second this. All these fancy services are neat but hosting private data in the US is seen in Europe as a major security risk, when it's not a complete no-no. Would be cool to know about self-hosted options.
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#106Is this some sort of Etherpad revival? :) Would be awesome
In a way, yes. See grinich's comment which explains the chronology/genealogy:
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#107Finally, they released google docs. I jest, buy I am going to give them (Dropbox) another shot. Google docs is very frustrating. From dumping me into an unorganized pile of text w/o folders to just enough features to make it complicated to do basic stuff but bot enough to do advanced...or even normal stuff. Dropbox has done some annoying stuff w/ their offerings, but i'm going to try paper out and if I don't get burn…
Google docs organization is a mess. Honestly, I think an old school file system hierarchy that everyone sees would be better. Paper seems like wave (not google docs), and you really need a spreedsheet feature to have a competitive product IMO.
Google Drive for Teams is coming soon which I'm hoping will solve a lot of these problems
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2016/11/google-team-dri...
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#108After looking at landing page, it's completely unclear what it is. Powerpoint with comments? Pinterest for enterprise? Google Wave with Material design? "Create, review, organize" — but even Quake level editor is about creating, reviewing and organizing.
Google Wave is exactly what I thought of. Like Wave, this is a polished, high-quality, sexy solution for a problem that simply doesn't exist. People are going to ooh and aah over it, and then keep using Slack and Google Docs. s/Wave/Paper in this Wave obituary from 2010: > Wave brought together elements of instant messaging, e-mail, microblogging, and collaborative editing in a single service that strongly emphasized…
There was a project that forked Wave when it was handed to Apache, can't remember the name but it seemed nice to use
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#109The other notable "Google Docs/Office killer" is Quip. Previous HN discussion of that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12205855 My gripe with these is that after using Word, these feel rigid and not full featured enough. And only with Google docs do you get what realtime collaboration should feel like.
I have not used Quip.
I used to work on Dropbox Paper, and I now work at Google (again) and use Google Docs for work documents (for obvious reasons) while I keep personal stuff in Paper.
IMO Paper's realtime collaboration experience is superior to Google Docs. I'm curious to know if you've tried it and what you find better about Google Docs?
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#110I wonder if they are using operational transforms or CRDTs underneath for the collaborate editing.
Operational transforms.
https://github.com/ether/pad/tree/master/infrastructure/ace
(I used to work on Dropbox Paper)