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Preface: My team has been using quip for the past 6 months (and switched from google docs). The value is in the collaboration tools. Quip has inline comments a

Preface: My team has been using quip for the past 6 months (and switched from google docs). The value is in the collaboration tools. Quip has inline comments and document level comments, chat rooms, private chat, and the ability to tag people and documents anywhere. It's a really powerful collaboration mechanism especially for remote teams, and cuts down on emails. It's extremely intuitive for digital natives, but completely turns how one views documents (as static and entirely separate from the comments on them) on it's head. It's less friendly to people who are long time MS Office users.

discardorama 10y ago
> Quip has inline comments and document level comments, chat rooms, private chat, and the ability to tag people and documents anywhere. I think Google Docs has all of the above.
- duaneb 10y ago
  Yea, its a clone with chat stuck on.
olegious 10y ago
I don't like Quip. Too slow. Collaborative editing works much better in Google Docs. Can't do proper headings/subheadings or TOC. Just a few of the issues that jumped out at me.
BinaryIdiot 10y ago
> Quip has inline comments and document level comments, chat rooms, private chat, and the ability to tag people and documents anywhere. It's a really powerful collaboration mechanism especially for remote teams, and cuts down on emails. Google Docs has all of this (I've used all of it for the past 5-ish years). Is there something specific Quip does better?
pmarreck 10y ago
Interesting. Google Docs seems to cover most of this already, and is free. The fact that a for-pay competitor to Google Docs (adding in in-context chat and everywhere-tagging) is finding success, is very interesting. I wonder if there's a market for an end to end encrypted collab tool... all I could find was https://www.crypho.com/ https://www.crypho.com/ which seems fairly basic.

discardorama 10y ago

> Quip has inline comments and document level comments, chat rooms, private chat, and the ability to tag people and documents anywhere. I think Google Docs has all of the above.

duaneb 10y ago
Yea, its a clone with chat stuck on.

olegious 10y ago

I don't like Quip. Too slow. Collaborative editing works much better in Google Docs. Can't do proper headings/subheadings or TOC. Just a few of the issues that jumped out at me.

BinaryIdiot 10y ago

> Quip has inline comments and document level comments, chat rooms, private chat, and the ability to tag people and documents anywhere. It's a really powerful collaboration mechanism especially for remote teams, and cuts down on emails. Google Docs has all of this (I've used all of it for the past 5-ish years). Is there something specific Quip does better?

pmarreck 10y ago

Interesting. Google Docs seems to cover most of this already, and is free. The fact that a for-pay competitor to Google Docs (adding in in-context chat and everywhere-tagging) is finding success, is very interesting. I wonder if there's a market for an end to end encrypted collab tool... all I could find was https://www.crypho.com/ https://www.crypho.com/ which seems fairly basic.