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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?
The folder system in paper is very cumbersome.
It would be great if paper docs could be shared and organized like regular files in dropbox.
Sure you can create .webloc files and organize them within your file system, but i'd love it if the Paper folder system showed up as regular files and folders within Dropbox so I could modify, create new folders and move the files around easily.
- Dave
- Rich
Super User II
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
I've not renewed my subscription because of the lack of response here. If DB doesn't care about its users, then why should I use my money to support the service. Either decide that Paper is a failed experiment and cut it, market it as a fully separate product, or integrate. Now you're letting it create confusion and negativity.
I am a developer and I would love a feature that will integrate my Dropbox Paper docs with my Dropbox files.
This is so I would be able edit my files in vim directly and be able to access them in dropbox paper.
Are you guys developing something like this?
Thank you for your product!
Is this featured solved yet??
Me too! I was a huge Hackpad fan and now wanted to move to Notes for using with a team used to Dropbox rather than Google Drive. I just assumed I could save it to a dropbox folder! Please add this feature soon. Thanks :-)
Kind of baffled as to why this wasn't enabled as part of the MVP. Surely the whole point of paper is that we can mix collaboratively edited documents in shared folders with other types of document. It makes me wonder if dropbox has any idea how their product is used.
Dropbox Paper will be virtually useless to us until we can integrate Paper docs in our regular team folders. If and when we are able to do that, it'll be the next best thing to jet packs.
I thought Paper would also be able to be save to a folder. Why double handle!! I have allocated folders for allocated projects (like most people) and to have work in different parts of Dropbox doesn't make things easier. I work collaboratively and want all files for projects kept together.
Im also have trouble trying to 'save' Paper. I try to exit (I use safari) and it warns me there are unsafe comments. Any advice?
- Agree
Yes, this is what I want to do as well. I am a web designer and I use Dropbox to share files with clients. I want to be able to put Paper docs into the folder that I am already sharing with them, for things like to-do's that they need to complete, questionnaires they need to fill out, and so on. I want to keep these in the same place as the other files for the project -- easier for the client and for me.
Yes to everything Elizabeth M. said.
I think Paper is great and has a lot of potential. The two things I still need the most which the product does not have are:
1. Ability to save notes anywhere on your Dropbox file hierarchy.
2. Mobile app or mobile integration.
If I can create or edit a note in my phone while knowing it will be saved in an appropriate project file on my Dropbox account I think my entire digital life and work can be stored and done in Dropbox.
A note about point 1: I find it incredible that note-taking applications like Evernote and OneNote group their documents together under their own hierarchies, labels, tags etc - in essence a "group by file type" and not the more convenient "group by content". Imagine if all your Excel files had to live in Excel.
Allowing for tags and the ability to filter/search with tags would be nice too.
Congrats on the great work so far.
- Emma
Community Manager
Status changed:Gathering SupporttoNewYou can find out more about the mobile app here :)
+1 on Paper docs as part of the Dropbox folders... but, I have no idea how that would work without an offline native editor. I suspect that's why the HackPad/Dropbox team haven't done it. ;-)
I will also chime in that sharing Paper docs to existing folders within my personal file structure would be awesome. I actually assumed Paper would do this and was very excited, but it does not as of yet. To answer the question you asked the other Liz, I am hoping to have Paper replace Evernote, mainly because I hate the file structure of Evernote. I thought this would be a way to keep notes related to a specific program or event in the same place as all other files for the event in Dropbox (I work at a museum so have multiple projects going on at once). I also share a lot of Dropbox folders with graphic designers where I upload copy and other content, and being able to add a Paper page for dialog or explanation into those shared folders would be convenient.
