Dropbox于 2015 年发布了Dropbox Paper，并于 2017 年推出了该产品，作为一种与来自世界任何地方的团队成员进行组织和协作的新方式。从本质上讲，它想要在主要被Google Drive(Google Drive)和Office 365挟持的在线协作蛋糕中分一杯羹。
对于Dropbox Paper(Dropbox Paper)来说，这是一条漫长而曲折的道路。什么是Dropbox Paper，它是在竞争中脱颖而出，还是在自身炒作的重压下崩溃了？
什么是 Dropbox Paper？(What Is Dropbox Paper?)
Dropbox Paper是一种具有拖放功能的协作编辑服务。它非常灵活，允许各种规模的团队聚集在一起创建、审查、修改、管理和组织创意。可以把它想象成一个巨大的虚拟白板，团队的所有成员都可以同时与之交互。
它因其协作功能而备受赞誉，包括任务分配、评论和修订历史记录，以及对富媒体集成的支持。该产品似乎步履蹒跚的地方在于缺乏格式选项和编辑功能。
Paper最近已集成到Dropbox本身，不再将其视为独立服务。这意味着您需要一个Dropbox帐户才能使用Paper。但是，当前使用Paper的任何人都将保留所有创建的文档，只是现在它们会以.paper格式出现在Dropbox中。
Dropbox Paper 与竞争对手
与 Google 文档对比(Versus Google Docs)
“当你为王而来，你最好不要错过”。在将Dropbox Paper(Dropbox Paper)叠加到Google Docs时，这句话似乎太相关了。在这个比较中，Paper应该在射击场上花更多的时间。
平心而论，直接比较不应该是真正的讨论。除了协作努力之外，它们在大多数方面甚至都不相似。Google Docs是 Word 文档的样式和编辑工具，而Paper代表更接近协作式笔记软件的东西。
如果有的话，Dropbox Paper对(Dropbox Paper)Evernote和 Microsoft 的OneNote的模仿远远超过你在Google Drive上找到的任何东西。
与印象笔记(Versus Evernote)
Evernote一直是并且一直是一个笔记工具。你集思广益，Evernote提供了一个地方供你记下并保存以备后用。然后，您可以出于组织目的使用标签对这些笔记进行分类。
Dropbox 做的事情有点不同。保存的文档归档在文件夹下。这是它与Google Docs和Microsoft的相似之处之一。该系统允许您在文件夹中创建任意数量的文件夹。与 Evernote 有限的深度相比有了很大进步。
这两个选项都提供基本的文本格式（粗体、斜体、项目符号等）。Evernote获得一些分数的地方是支持通过Skitch进行图像编辑的能力。Paper还需要第三方编辑服务，但不直接支持任何内容，这意味着您可以自行选择搜索。
两种服务都有相似的共享方式。Paper使用邀请(Invite )按钮，而 Evernote 使用共享(Share )按钮。两者都允许对谁可以编辑和查看进行权限控制。
在协作方面，Paper最为耀眼。它允许您通过@mention 引起特定注释的注意。然后，您可以创建待办事项列表并将单个任务分配给团队的不同成员。
这两种选择都很棒，但Evernote在创建过程中从未考虑过协作。尽管他们在团队中有共同点，但在这方面，Paper是赢家。
与 Microsoft OneNote 相比(Versus Microsoft OneNote)
OneNote允许您创建笔记本。在每个笔记本中，您都有用于创建文本、音频和图像笔记的部分。您还可以使用标签来组织所有笔记本中的类似笔记。如前所述， Paper(Paper)使用文件夹系统。
OneNote在格式化部门使用类似于(OneNote)Google Docs的功能区式界面来粉碎Paper。使用Paper，您将获得的只是带有有限选项的简约弹出窗口。据说这可以使 UI 保持整洁且更平易近人，但它可以与更多选项一起使用。
Paper 的共享功能胜过OneNote，但仅略胜一筹。OneNote使用类似的格式来共享文档，但缺少权限等高级选项。这意味着任何获得您链接的人都可以编辑您的文档而不受惩罚。最好让文档只对几个电子邮件地址开放，以避免此类事情发生。
OneNote带有许多在笔记应用程序中不常见的不寻常功能。它可以执行简单的数学方程式，带有内置的词库和语言翻译工具，并允许您转换和发送PDF和Word格式的笔记。它还具有高级OCR功能，可将扫描的图像转换为笔记。
纸(Paper)没有这些东西。但是，Paper仍然更适合协作需求。对于与Microsoft Office Suite深度集成的数字笔记本，OneNote是您的最终选择。
Dropbox Paper 适合谁？(Who Is Dropbox Paper For?)
创作者、协作者和演示者都可以从Dropbox Paper中受益，尽管只是小剂量。它看起来像一张无穷无尽的白皮书，并为集思广益和嵌入各种形式的富媒体（包括Trello、YouTube、Spotify和Vimeo ）提供了一个巨大的工作空间。
您不仅可以添加媒体，还可以使其具有交互性。这意味着您可以使用Dropbox Paper为学生创建课程计划或为员工创建视频和音频演示文稿，并与每位参与者共享一份副本。
Paper比竞争对手更酷的功能之一是清单块。此功能允许您创建任务，将它们分配给贡献者，设置截止日期，并检查它们是否已完成。这可能是一个有点不稳定的功能，因为即使每个人都能看到截止日期，任务也只会出现在分配给他们的那些人身上。
您可以将Trello卡片添加到Paper ，这些卡片将在(Paper)Trello上更新时在文档中更新。当前使用此服务的任何组织都可能会发现这比清单块更有益。
总而言之，Dropbox Paper是大多数笔记服务的不错替代品，但在与(Dropbox Paper)Google等公司竞争时仍有一段路要走。
What Is Dropbox Paper and How Does It Compare?
Dropbox announced Dropbox Paper in 2015 and launched the product in 2017 as a new way to organize and сollaboratе with team members from anywhere in the world. Essentially, it wanted a piece оf the online collaborative pie that has been held hоstage predominantly by Gоogle Drive and Office 365.
It’s been a long and winding road during a short period of time for Dropbox Paper. What is Dropbox Paper and has it held up to the competition or crashed and burned under the weight of its own hype?
What Is Dropbox Paper?
Dropbox Paper is a collaborative editing service with drag and drop features. It’s incredibly flexible, allowing teams of all sizes to come together to create, review, revise, manage, and organize creative ideas. Think of it as a giant, virtual whiteboard that all members of a team can interact with simultaneously.
It has been praised for its collaborative functionality, including task assignments, comments, and revision history as well as its support for rich media integration. Where the product seems to falter is in its lack of formatting options and editing features.
Paper has recently been integrated into Dropbox itself, no longer considering it to be a standalone service. This means you’ll need a Dropbox account to use Paper. However, anyone who is currently using Paper will retain all documents created, only now they will appear in Dropbox in a .paper format.
Dropbox Paper Versus Competitors
Versus Google Docs
“When you come for the king, you had better not miss”. This phrase seems all too relevant when stacking up Dropbox Paper to Google Docs. In this comparison, Paper should have spent more time at the shooting range.
In all fairness, a direct comparison shouldn’t really be a discussion. Aside from collaboration efforts, they’re not even similar in most respects. Google Docs is a style and editing tool for word documents, whereas Paper represents something closer to collaborative note-taking software.
If anything, Dropbox Paper seems to imitate Evernote and Microsoft’s OneNote far more than anything you’d find on Google Drive.
Versus Evernote
Evernote is and was always meant to be a note-taking tool. You brainstorm an idea and Evernote provides a place for you to jot it down and save it for later. You can then categorize these notes with tags for organizational purposes.
Dropbox does things a little different. Saved documents are filed under folders. This is one of the similarities it has with the Google Docs and Microsoft. This system allows you to create as many folders within folders as you’d like. Quite a step up from Evernote’s limited depth.
Both options provide basic text formatting (bold, italics, bullet points, etc.) Where Evernote earns some points is the ability to support image editing through Skitch. Paper also requires a third-party editing service but does not directly support any which means you’re on your own with the search choices.
Both services have similar ways to share. Paper uses an Invite button whereas Evernote has a Share button. Both allow for permission control over who can edit and view.
When it comes to collaboration, Paper shines brightest. It allows you to draw the attention of a particular note through an @mention. You can then create to-do lists and assign individual tasks to the varying members of your team.
Both options are great but Evernote never had collaboration in mind during its creation. Though they share common ground for teams, Paper stands tall as the winner in this regard.
Versus Microsoft OneNote
OneNote lets you create notebooks. Inside each notebook, you’ve got sections to create text, audio, and image notes. You can also use tags to organize similar notes across all notebooks. Paper, as has been stated, uses a folder system.
OneNote crushes Paper in the formatting department, utilizing a ribbon-style interface not unlike Google Docs. With Paper, all you’ll get is the minimalistic pop-up with limited options. This is said to keep the UI uncluttered and more approachable, but it could do with a few more options.
Paper’s sharing capabilities win out over OneNote, but only slightly. OneNote uses a similar format to share a document but lacks advanced options like permissions. This means anyone who gets their hands on your link can edit your document with impunity. It’s best to leave the document open to only a few email addresses to avoid this sort of thing.
OneNote comes with plenty of unusual features not commonly seen in a note taking app. It can perform simple mathematical equations, comes with a built-in thesaurus and language translation tool, and allows you to convert and send notes in both PDF and Word formats. It also comes with advanced OCR functionality for turning scanned images into notes.
Paper does not have these things. However, Paper is still better for collaboration needs. For a digital notebook that has a deep integration with Microsoft Office Suite, OneNote is your definitive option.
Who Is Dropbox Paper For?
Creators, collaborators, and presenters can all benefit from Dropbox Paper, albeit in small doses. It appears as an endless sheet of white paper and provides a large workspace for brainstorming and embedding varying forms of rich media including Trello, YouTube, Spotify, and Vimeo.
You’ll not only be able to add media but also make it interactive as well. This means you can use Dropbox Paper to create lesson plans for students or video and audio presentations for employees, and share a copy with every participant.
One of the cooler features of Paper that it has over its competitors is the checklist block. This feature allows you to create tasks, assign them to contributors, set a due date, and check them off as completed. It can be a slightly wonky feature as the tasks only appear for those they have been assigned to even though everyone is able to see the due date.
You can add Trello cards to Paper that will update in the document as they are updated on Trello. Any organization currently using this service may find this more beneficial to that of the checklist block.
All in all, Dropbox Paper is a decent alternative to most note taking services but still has a ways to go when competing with the likes of Google.
