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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?
Honestly, decoupling Paper (i.e. Advanced Notes) from Dropbox (a cloud file location to store things... like Notes) is just plain idiotic.
Even if it's not housed within the Dropbox location, we should be able to create some kind of cloud organized link structure between them.
If I'm in a Paper Folder, allow us to link that with a specific Dropbox folder. If I'm in Dropbox and want to create a note to go with the organizational structure... I should be able to link it.
Right now, I have to go inside Paper, manually download the Word Version (only option?!) and save the **bleep** thing manually.
I love Dropbox, it's why I've invested monthly income to do so... but this is short-sited and idiotic for such a great cloud services company.
INTEGRATE YOUR IDEAS BEFORE YOU RELEASE THEM!!!! It's like rule number one of programming design. If it's not functional... why spend money and time on it?Just chiming in here with the need to store Paper notes in the Dropbox folder system. I was honestly suprised that this wasn't a possibility from the start, it seems obvious that users want to do this for the simple reason that you want to be able to store every type of content concerning a certain topic in one place. I'm very happy to read that the Dropbox team is actively looking in to this, and hope it will become available in the not too far future. Other than that I still love Dropbox :-) (My whole life seems to be on Dropbox.)
I'd like to add to this that the Paper app can of course continue to exist even when the integration with the Dropbox folders is done. I'm sure that qui some users are almost exclusively using Paper, so for them it would make no sense to have to switch to the Dropbox app.
Glad to see this discussion bc I was going a little batty trying to figure out why I couldn't *move* the doc I created in Paper into an existing folder. I tried out Paper for the first time and created a doc to share with my writers critique group and when I tried to place the newly minted document into the group folder I was like... WTH?! Geez, that was a let down.
I guess I'll just do a work-around and export the file, save it and then upload back into our DropBox folder. A very clunky solution at best but I sure as hell don't want to recreate the document.
Pleasepleaseplease make it possible to move Paper docs into existing DropBox folders. I see a ton of potential here. The fact that it remains separate is quite a glitch in the usability of Paper (I love DropBox overall btw--I've been a longtime user... since it was released to the public!) Here's hoping you guys at DropBox can improve Paper's usability by integrating it effectively w/ DB. Oh... and while you're at it please make Deletions and/or Edits to Section Elements more obvious in Papers' design ;). I look forward to an updated release. Once you do that then we'll ALL be in business. Thanks!!I wanted to chime in on this, since I had come to the forum to post about a similar issue. I would definitely use Dropbox for everything if Paper documents were included in the regular DB file structure. For example, in Google Drive, I can right click and hit New Doc/Sheet/etc. right there in any folder.
I like having docs mixed in with my other files because it's so much better organization. If I had a Dropbox folder named Project One, not only could I keep my images/assets there, but my Project One Paper notes right there as well. The separation of main DB folder structure from Paper docs makes things very cumbersome and not very intuitive.
To be honest, I don't really see a need for a separate Paper section at all. Personally I would just like the "Create Paper doc" function available in any folder.
I also wanted to add, like a few other users here, that I'm attempting to push my workplace to Dropbox, but little missing features like this still keep us using Google Drive.
The Paper UI is really great and is an enjoyable writing experience, so I'm hoping it will become much better integrated into the main DB file system. My dream would be to use Paper offline for docs too! As a web designer the UI feels so much more 'natural' to me than a typical word processor.
Agreed with the above. Would love to move team to mainly using dropbox/dropbox paper instead of gsuite.
OK So I was have the same frustration and until DB gets is S#%@ together here is the workaround....
I integrated the folder which is shared with the team into the Main Project Folder with a link so we could easily go back and forth. Yes this is an extra step and it's dumb but, this is the best I've got. I tried to explain in these pictures.
I hope this makes sense.
I was also able to share with links in docs to other docs with in the paper folder....
+1 for integrating Paper documents to existing folders.
+1 for this as well. This was the first thing I tried to do, and it's the only feature that prevents us from using dropbox as a full platform for docs/files.
Seems like you can let the docs be in any folder, and if someone is using it on the desktop, it functions as a link to the browser doc. Obviously future feature would be desktop client for editing.
why has this been marked as solved? It hasn't been solved at all - we want to save paper's files to dropbox existing folders.
I'm looking to move to the new Google team drive for good now, and ditch dropbox altogether. It seems like the developers have no plans to make this functionality work.
