You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
DropBox Collections?
Is anybody using the new "Collections" feature that appeared as beta in the nav bar on the web? These are just folders right?
maria_h
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi Tim! Thanks for writing in about this. By the sounds of it, this was an idea we were looking to get feedback on. I'd love to hear a bit more about your experience with collections - did you try it out? How did you discover it? For what reason do you think Dropbox came up with this idea? What benefit might it have for its customers (like you)?
Best feature in a while!
Our use case is tied into Trello and the community meetings we organize.
We have a large amount of documents grouped into different categories and sub-categories. For larger projects we create Trello boards with weekly lists where each card links to one of our files to be used in the session. Easy.
But for smaller, one-off meetings that don't need a full board we were often faced with the problem of grouping these files: create a folder with shortcuts, drag weblocs there, use Transfer, create copies in yet another folder, or the worst: send share links in an email! Horrible…
Now, this is just splendid. All our meetings, smaller get-togethers, we can just add our files wherever they're archived into handy, reusable, shareable groups—and (I'm guessing?) even when the originals are renamed, or moved to another category, the Collection stays intact.
REALLY hope this feature will be a keeper!
