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what is dropbox paper?
by sorry_outta_gas 5y ago
what is dropbox paper?
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- arthurcolle 5y agoNew Age neo-hypertext document type (proprietary, of course) that supports collaboration using the Dropbox™ suite of services
- SilverRed 5y agoSo a competitor to google docs / office?
- ents 5y agoTheoretically. I don't know a single person that uses it.
- brightball 5y agoI use it. I find it to be a great option for my note taking.
- slantyyz 5y agoI use it for some stuff. The markdown shortcuts are great for formatting.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoTo me it seems to want to be Google Wave. A union of documents and chat channels so your workspace can be all-inclusive, but I think it has a bit of a fax machine problem in that I don't know anyone else to use it with. Edit: the toolbar on a new "Paper" doc allow me to insert an image, media, dropbox file, table, timeline, to do list, and code blocks. I can link a calendar event to a doc, Oh, I can hit a button to switch to "Presentation Mode"... and I can highlight text to comment on it. So on second thought it seems very similar to google docs.
- cartoonworld 5y agoIt sounds a bit like Hypercard. If MS made a wordpad powerpoint hypercard?
- joshxyz 5y agoits like gitbook / notion / google docs, except more laggier
- daniel_iversen 5y agoIt's an online collaborative simple document editor/space where you can embed live web stuff into these virtual "pages" and hyperlink between them. It came out of Dropbox' acquisition of Hackpad (which itself was based on open-source Etherpad). Funnily enough, Google bought Etherpad and then I suspect that's what they used to create the revolutionary Google Wave in 2009, which of course they killed off years later (just to recently launch Smart Canvas or whatever it's called which is reminiscent of Wave). It's a cool product though, and I still (disclaimer: an ex-Dropboxer) use Dropbox Paper for lots of stuff (especially long form writing and research).