Hi Product Hunt!
I’m a PM on Dropbox Paper. Dropbox Paper is a way to organize your team’s knowledge in a single place. With the iOS and Android apps, you can now create, read, or make edits to Paper docs, see all your notifications in a single place, and quickly read and reply to comments.
We love to hear your feedback and answer any questions you have!
@christinacaci Yes! Excited for this. The web version is awesome and we've been using it at https://hardbound.co to create our stories for the past couple months. Been eagerly awaiting a native mobile version.
@christinacaci Awesome :)
Seems the competition for cloud document collab (including messaging) is getting bigger by the day, as @rrhoover said with Quip being acquired by Salesforce and even yesterday Amium launched too.
Dropbox obviously has a great presence in the cloud document space, what do you see as the main points to teams using this vs others in the space?
What is currently missing in the space that Dropbox Paper will look to fill?
What have been the biggest challenges in building this?
Hey @christinacaci
I absolutely love Dropbox Paper. Can you please share a bit more about the future of Paper – better organisation, integrations, native app?
@kennethchen a native Paper app should feel as fast as Pages I think. Rich-text editing quickly feels sluggish if not done really native. That's what keeps Google Docs from replacing MS Word or Apple Pages. Performance is king when working on text.
@skreutzb I wasn't arguing that using a MacGap or Electron approach would meet or exceed the performance of a native app. Even well funded organizations who care about the user experience like Slack can decide it's an acceptable trade off given all their priorities and business goals.
Hi PH! I'm Ian and I work on the Paper team. We've been working hard on mobile apps for Dropbox Paper; it's a super early beta, and we'd love to hear your feedback!
I couldn't fully take advantage of Paper until it hit mobile - alas, I couldn't be more thrilled.
I've been using Evernote for years now, and it's worked just fine, but hasn't seemed to evolve much - nor has the look or feel.
Stoked Dropbox!
@christinacaci@bcallaars Super weird position, been using the web version as a French beta tester with no problems at all, so I'm a bit puzzled to see this!
Hope you'll have enough leeway to explain this decision. Thanks!
@christinacaci love Paper but the markdown support needs to improve, i cannot convince my engineers to use it. steps to repro:
1. write doc in Paper and export to md
2. save md doc in github repo and view on github.com
or
1. write any md doc
2. copy/paste into Paper
none of these scenarios work, and i end up having to reformat the whole doc every time. the worst support is around code blocks and inline code snippets. IMO if you fix this Paper will be by far the best place to collaborate on engineering spec docs. currently there is no solution for this.
Also loved the ALT+UP-ARROW and ALT+DOWN-ARROW to move a whole line of text above/below the previous/next line - this used to be a shortcut in hackpad and i miss it dearly
@arush hey Arush, thanks for letting us know. there's a few parts of Paper we don't markdown-ize (e.g. tables, doc links) but it sounds like you're running into more than just those problems.
could you email me an example markdown file w which you're having trouble? ccacioppo@dropbox.com
on the up/down arrow keys: this is legit my favorite keyboard shortcut, i think. it's now ctrl + cmd + [arrow key] (it'll only take a day or so to remap your fingers i promise .. )
@arush an error or just a vacation auto-responder? i just tried emailing myself at that address, from another account, and it arrived fine. i couldn't find your message in my inbox (from:arush in:all) though.
Hello @christinacaci@ianmendiola@drewhouston (especially!) @igorkofman and rest of the makers/team -- just noticed that word count has a special count for emoji. Super cute! (as an aside, I often wish copy/paste would ascii-fy emoji). Looking forward to the mobile app catching up to the browser site when it comes to editing (tables, emoji, etc.). Congratulations on the release!
Looking forward to testing this out! btw I still get email notifications whenever someone adds a comment to the original Dropbox Paper shared document thing from a few months back 😅 https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
We've been awaiting this over at Mensch Labs ever since we started using Paper over docs in the last couple of weeks. Congrats on the launch Paper team!
This is awesome! Have you considered adding a template feature? My agency utilizes recurring documentation frameworks (creative briefs, status docs, etc.), so a feature that expedites document generation would be really beneficial. Or even the ability to duplicate docs would be great!
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