What is Reddit's opinion of Dropbox Paper?

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> Google is definitely using an AI to scan private files put on Google Drive / Docs for certain keywords or ideas.

Are you sure they're scanning private, unshared files? I looked at those examples and as far as I can tell they're files that are shared with at least one person. Not that that isn't still an egregious violation of privacy and completely ridiculous, but still, a notable difference.

At any rate, if there were ever a time to get out of Google's ecosystem, it is now. Goes for me, too. I tried Dropbox Paper when it was in beta and it was pretty good, but I have no idea what their privacy agreement consists of.

>No it's not more than storage. It's exactly storage.

Obviously, as a customer you are free to leave them if you feel like they are not delivering the services you would like them too but, it is quite clear that dropbox is not interested in being "just storage".

https://www.dropbox.com/paper?_tk=blog&_oqa=174pl01mbbody

Again, if you think that shifting developer focus from storage to a collaborative platform is the wrong move, you're free to use any other provider. I would also mention, if DropBox could sustain themselves continuing to provide "exactly storage" they probably would… I do not believe DropBox can compete on storage alone if Google, Microsoft and Apple all offer a way to get storage and a reasonably powerful "Office Suite" all in one.

There is a lot of mention of what dropbox is today, but the whole point of a rebrand is that it's trying to be something else, something broader, right? Dropbox Paper is about collaborating on papers together, it definately has a more emphasis on the creative aspect of collaboration and sharing files.

I don’t think there is any option really. Besides using something like Quip or Dropbox Paper.

maybe want to look into thunknotes.com (good, but premium after free trial) or slab.com (free up to 10 users). And not to sound silly, but Dropbox Paper is free, offers good note taking capabilities and task tracking across multiple notes and has mobile apps https://www.dropbox.com/paper

As u/lacadasical mentioned, Notion is a powerful and popular tool for this.

Another option is Confluence, managed by the same company that owns Trello.

A third option that you may already be working with is Dropbox. They have something called Dropbox Paper.

I'm not sure how much of a concern this is for you but in the event that you ever wanted to automate any of these processes, Notion does not currently have an API, while the other two options do.

I like dropbox paper as it it supports markdown and you can share a folder with someone. There are also #tags but u can't share a tag, only a folder.

Paper works well for projects as you can have nested todos with due dates and ppl assignned to them.

Google docs inside a shared drive folder also works, but for notes a google doc has way too many formatting options. Simple is good.

Try Paper from Dropbox - works well for solo to-do's management and notes and if you want it can be shared with team members and all that. I use it for my freelance work all the time.

It uses Markdown for formatting so it's super fast for great note taking: "#" for H1 "##" for H2 "---" for horizontal divider "[]" for checkable tick box with due date reminder

Etc..

I mainly just use Dropbox Paper. I do some coding, so I like that it uses markup, and looks nice.

Although, my productivity system is a little weird. I don't overly plan my projects, I "hustle" them in real time, which I mainly use a white board for.

I believe they are trying to transition to DropBox Paper being their "main product", and DropBox Storage just being the service that makes that possible.