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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?
Dropbox Paper would be decidedly more useful on a number of levels if users had a menu option for Dropbox files to open them within Dropbox Paper, then save edited versions back to Dropbox from the browser (particularly if I just want to edit a few lines of code in a script).
Right now, if I want to edit an existing document, I must open a new Dropbox Paper document, import the content from dropbox, edit it, copy and paste the edited content into a desktop application, delete the original file, then upload the amended file to the original location. This process is highly inefficient and I would be better off just downloding the file and editing it in the application I would end up pasting it into anyway.
Anyone know when this might happen? It's really stupid that you can't save the 'paper' docs in the same folder as an uploaded PDF. :/ DOH!
+1 for this workflow support.
I want to keep all my files in one place (isn't that the dropbox value prop?) and organised they way I want them to be. Currently, I can't do that with my Paper docs.I'd love to see a version of this implimented allowing me to keep all my different types of files in the one place in dropbox.
As Dropbox is not giving any timing for implementing a true integration between Paper en Dropbox folders, and not even a clear statement of intention to do so, I've decided to give up on this. I've dropped Paper altogether, and have now taken to using the integration with MS Office Word and Excel documents to cater for my "living" document needs in project folders on Dropbox. It's clunky and quite heavy but it works.
Stijn,
Google Docs might be your friend ;-)
I did use Google docs for a long time and like the wealth of editing functions, but I like Dropbox scan and sharing features and have been building up a huge volume of data in Dropbox over the last years so it would be a hell of a job to migrate.
This is not solved - I am working with a group that uses Dropbox instead of Google Drive & I need a way to interactively edit a document with them short of me making edits, uploading them & then repeating this process until the entire group finds the document acceptable.
+1 for sure. Paper, you have made an enjoyable composition tool. It needs some stuff. I know that you can't make everyone happy at one time, but leveraging your current audience (Dropbox users) is going to help you out by helping us out. Combining the working document with the existing dropbox structure through some sort of association would be very helpful. *honestly, I can't use your tool much until that happens.*
Ditto! We drove ourselves nuts trying to figure out why we couldn't see our staff notes in the "team folders' and in our Finder windows, or why we couldn't move them (or delete them for that matter!)
It's cumbersome to have to flip back and forth between our important documents in "Team Folders" and the Paper document we are collaborating on (only available online, not in the Finder window). Our team had been using Box.com which has seamless integration between BoxNotes and the shared folders, and it's a dissapointment that DropBox missed this.We will wait to pay to switch fully to DropBox until this integration is complete.
- 12-02-2015 04:14 PM
