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Is Dropbox Paper dead in the water?
Hi everyone,
I really like how Dropbox Paper works and I would love to move all my work from other alternatives to work only in Paper. But I'm a bit worried that Dropbox ignores Paper at this point and don't improve it. The last "news" to Paper was on March 5 which is a very long time ago. And I don't want to work in a tool that the developers doesn't want to improve.
Anyone know how the development around Paper will be going forward?
Thanks and have a nice day all.
exzrael Thanks for sharing. I had not thought about it in these terms. It's true I have not recently seen many updates to Paper itself, and from what I've been able to see in the latest Space Beta, most of the focus is in Spaces.
This being said, the way I see it, Paper is an integral part of the Spaces experience, and I cannot image it going away any time soon. I sure hope it does not aas I moved all my business workflow, for yself and my team to it over the past 4 months.
From what I understand, there is work underway for a Mac nativle Paper client with off-line support. That would be a huge improvement. I've also seen other rquests as accepted by the team, which makes me thnk there is work going on.
It would be great though, some form of clarification from Dopbox that Paper remains central and healthy in the future product roadmaps.
Just out of curiosity, what features are you hoping to see that Paper does not have today? Thanks. m.
Thanks for pointing this out! Paper is now my go-to word processor, largely because of its .md compatibility and flexible functionality.
Going forward, I would really appreciate an offline mode for the Windows desktop app. It's currently available on mobile, but not on Windows OR Mac. My impression is that's the highest priority feature for Paper users; me included!- I absolutely hear you. From my readings in other sections of the community, I believe a beta version is available with offline support for desktop OS. I have not been able to get my hands on it, so I cannot say for sure.
I do agree this is critical. Aside from there are small things I miss. Merging cells in tables, perhaps an automated table of contents creation feature. But not a lot more.
If I learn anything vélese I’ll be sure to come back and share.
I completely agree with you, and it seems that we've gotten our answer with the lack of an answer.
I loved Paper at the start (and used Hackpad before), but after seeing Paper not improve for years, we're now considering moving to Notion.
It somehow feels like the staff of Paper Dropbox have already done that themselves.
It's sad to see it slowly die as it's a really perfect companion to Dropbox itself.
The question is who wants/needs to use it, all the companies that I have worked with normally say Dropbox Paper - "what's that" ? "Contact I.T and they will create you a temporary MS account with Share point, Office/Onedrive, Teams".... I've kicked Paper into touch some time ago. Tricky times ahead I think!
Thanks! I've been in the same boat for a long time now, and continue to love the product, even without any evolution and VERY minimal bug fixes, but I wonder every day if I'll find myself out of all my notes anyway in the near future.
Have you found another solution for your use case? I have seen improvements in Google Docs that allow for collapsing and expanding content which is one of the features I like best about Paper.
Have you switched already? If so, to what and how are you liking it?
Thanks. m.
