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Re: Dropbox Paper

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post #21

After 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.

boxy mcdropface for hipsters?

Re: Dropbox Paper

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post #104

At 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?

Commenting is painful.

Re: Dropbox Paper

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post #57

Initially when Paper was launched I tried and left the product quickly. I was using Quip a lot for my work as it's more developer friendly and easy to manage. I use Paper more and more these days with my team though we are into Google for Work. Google Docs is a tough cookie and an office replica. Those who are in to markdown, they would hardly go back to anything else for formatting. The only catch with markdown is a…

Do you still use Quip at all? Paper looks nice, but I don't see any reason to switch from Quip.

Quip is a great product. I don't use it these days. I like everything about Quip except it's unconventional formatting shortcuts. I have tried various markdown based tools both mobile and web and finally I found Paper is appealing and strikes a balance between visual appeal, share and collaboration. Paper also syncs very small chunks of text (sentence level?) and it reduce conflicts a lot. Though I have used multiple tools for collaboration, the current version of Paper and Google Docs tops the list with my team.

Re: Dropbox Paper

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post #51

I'll throw Notion ( https://notion.so/ ) into the mix here, as an (as far as I can tell far more full-featured) alternative to this. I've used Paper a number of times, starting from long before Notion was a thing, having been a happy Etherpad and Hackpad user in the past. Somehow Paper managed to inspire less in my collaborators than either the latter services (where perhaps plain text was the factor) or than Notion…

What is going to happen to my docs when they get acquired and shutdown? Can I export?

Re: Dropbox Paper

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post #21

After 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.

After seeing the picture where they are literally using paper, my initial assumption was that this is was an old April fools joke.

Re: Dropbox Paper

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And Google Docs is X% there as a MS Office replacement.

Does Office have robust real-time simultaneous editing. I imagine Office 365 might have (does it?) - but how about desktop Office? Genuine question. I'm asking about Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

I used the Office collaboration features last with Office 2013 on Windows, and they were quite primitive. Basically, the document is synced with OneDrive.

The online version of Office has realtime collaboration AFAIK.

Re: Dropbox Paper

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Does anyone know if they finally changed it with the official release so that when you make a document it actually stores a markdown file or html file somewhere in your actual dropbox? I absolutely hate how the current beta has it so it's disconnected. I want to be able to write stuff in paper but have access to the originals via sync so I can update them locally in maybe something like Sublime and just have it auto update in Paper itself.

Re: Dropbox Paper

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It's Google docs but instead of being aimed at producing documents for prints, it is aimed at producing document for online consumption (multimedia) Pretty weird to name it after a printed medium if it is not primarily meant for printed media.

I think the point is that it's not a printed medium. You can do anything you want with paper... It doesn't give restrictions to what you want to do. You can doodle, make a mind map, sketch an amazingly detailed human eye, or actually take notes and brainstorm in your meeting. Paper is flexible. Software is not. They think they've made a good attempt with "Paper" at providing that flexibility online. Also: https://you…

Well... You can't play play videos and music on paper.
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