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Posted by Luhmann
Feb 11, 2017 at 01:28 AM
My biggest problem with Paper is that it requires internet access. I tried the iOS app and it wouldn’t let me edit a document when I was offline. Considering that Dropbox’s greatest strength is sync, it seems odd that they have a product that can’t sync offline changes…
Posted by Luhmann
Feb 11, 2017 at 01:34 PM
One nice thing about Paper is presentation mode. It is very easy to throw up a quick presentation from a text file…
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Feb 12, 2017 at 02:32 AM
Luhmann wrote:
One nice thing about Paper is presentation mode. It is very easy to
>throw up a quick presentation from a text file…
This got me to take another look, as I really like the idea of text-based presentation tools, though most of them feel more complicated than they should be.
Paper is simpler, but still a bit underwhelming. Also, it seems that you need to be logged into Paper with an internet connection in order to show the presentation. Still no PowerPoint export, which, in fairness, is missing from all the other text-based tools, too.
Posted by Larry Kollar
Feb 12, 2017 at 02:53 PM
Dropbox is pitching this as a collaborative space more than anything. I see how you could use it to keep notes, but (without playing with it) I don’t see how you’d organize them. I’ve co-written stuff using Google Docs, which *does* have an offline mode, but it doesn’t have any good way beyond folders to organize a large document consisting of multiple chapters. Does Dropbox Paper manage larger docs better, or it is geared toward presentations and the like?
Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 12, 2017 at 04:35 PM
Not sure what “manage ... better” entails—do you mean separate storage locations for chapters, research, related files, etc.? Paper is Folders, Favorites. Nothing more. I wouldn’t use it to write a book, but I *would* use it to collaboratively track an agenda or moderately complex task plan.
Is there a collaborative space that works well for co-authoriing publications?
@Larry Kollar wrote
>Does Dropbox Paper manage larger docs better,