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Hi
A number of us have started using dropbox paper at work. We want to save documents that we create in paper to an existing Team folder but I can't see how to do this. Any ideas anyone?
Just tried Paper first time today, pretty cool function and rather needed from a competitive view.
Rather quickly though, I realized that I would have wanted to have the Paper directly connected to a shared/specific folder, and preferably even as a "visible document" in that actual folder. Perhaps I missed something, because I couldn't find any way to connect the two. Paper seemed to have only it's own set of folders, separated from the original ones.
My humble two cents and a cup of tea.
Sebastian
Yup, lovely as it is, it's a complete waste of time for these two reasons:
1. If it's not syncing directly to part of my dropbox tree, I can't edit or use other tools to work with it.
2. Other tools are better at this kind of document editing. Dropbox has excelled at being a storage provider, but this platform completely ignores what *made* dropbox a success in the first place.
3. A proprietary storage space, and I suspect a proprietary document format, means another useless dead-end silo
4. If I can't round-trip documents elsewhere, you're treating me as a product, not a customer.
I can't get over Paper. The more you look at it, the less sense it makes.
I just posted the same comment above before reading this. I agree completely.
A temporary work around is to create .webloc files and organize them through that.
Not great but works if you have alot of paper docs.
Paper really does need a linking function for folders or individual files. Even something clustered together in a special application folder would be helpful.
I am a heavy Evernote users and this would be similar to the attachments Evernote supports, only provide would also have direct access to the linked folder / document in addition to via the note.
Paper is a beautiful application. Compliments to the UI folks. However, without the ability to store Paper files in my Dropbox folders, it is unfortunately of little value to me.
I support this - it must integrate with my Dropbox folders to be of any value in live projects
Agreed!
... my two reasons rapidly escalated there!
PLEASE Make this happen, loving dropbox Paper!!! Will ditch evernote in a second if you could make it work with our existing dropbox file structure... File structure is evernote's worst feature and why it turns everyone one off! They haven't innovated in years!
This is so important, and a little suprised it wasn't available when I began using it.. it would be great if Paper could provide an update on this too!
I've submitted an feature request but a reply here would be good to understand if it's on their immediate product roadmap before I commit to Paper too soon
- Agree with previous, I can see the benefit and trying it out with a team, but not being able to centralise both my 'paper' docs and other files in the same folder makes this counter-intuitive. If you want to make this useable, you need to stay within the usability context of dropbox, not create a totally separate experience. It seems you're focusing on UI in paper, but forgetting UX for users.
- Oh how disappointing 😭- Paper is such a lovely editor but it makes so sense disconnected from Dropbox. I immediately tried to save my Paper creation in the relevant folder on Dropbox but could not. I just don't understand the point of the disconnection. So I won't be using Paper until this happens - I'll just continue creating documents in Google Drive as that is just as disconnected, but has heaps of other benefits 😕
