

In order to make your notes be more organized, you can separate the personal notes and team notes by creating folders. In fact, Paper has prepared a meeting note template you can use. Paper is a great tool to be used on an online meeting.

This way, you can ask one of your team members to edit certain part of the document right away. This would be very nice for a real-time collaboration. Again, you can also mention your team members on the comment. You can also highlight certain words on your document and leave a comment. Dropbox has a useful notification feature to notify you when someone on your team mentions you. Once invited, you can mention them just like you usually do on social media by typing followed by their names. When creating a document, you can invite your team members via email addresses.

So, no wonder if Paper has a superb capability in terms of collaboration. Online collaboration capabilityīefore got bought by Dropbox, Hackpad was known as a document collaboration tool, although only few (may be) people know it. You can invite your team members to join a certain document and have a real-time collaboration with them. It would a great tool to work on a document with your team. The advantage of Paper is on the collaboration capability. If you want look for a comparison, Evernote is probably the better suited one. Paper comes with a minimum formatting tools. You can find the source code of Hackpad on GitHub.Īlthough the emphasis of Paper is document creation, it is different stuff to Google Docs or Word Online. After got bought by Dropbox, Hackpad announced that it would be released as open source. Dropbox then renamed Hackpad to Paper as we all now know. It bought a company behind Hackpad back in 2014. The app is Dropbox Paper, or simply Paper.ĭropbox didn’t develop Paper by itself. By April of 2015, Dropbox introduced a note-taking app that becomes a part of Dropbox service.

More features have been added with the aim to help you work collaboratively with your team. Dropbox has transformed from a mere cloud storage service to a great online collaboration tool.
