I hope they do something more innovative than the other guys. Like bringing this collaborative notes feature onto the desktop vs another browser based notes sharing site.
I use Dropbox on my computer as thought it's native to my OS.
When I open a browser then I go into the other world (the internet) where I have many choices. Keeping it tightly integrated with my OS would give Dropbox an advantage over the other guy that chose the easy way out.
I've been using this in beta since early march, if anyone has any specific questions I'm happy to field them.
Personal findings so far:
- Keyboard shortcuts are unparalleled compared to any other note taking app I've used (both desktop & web). Not needing to use a mouse to move around chunks of notes is highly productive.
- Safari seems to lose sync more often than Chrome.
- The design is really, really white. It took me a few days for it to stop hurting my eyes after tabbing to it from my IDE.
Is this basically a newer version of Hackpad? (I believe Dropbox acquired them)
I was in on the beta for this and I just couldn't figure out what to use it for. We use Google Docs, Trello, Confluence and Basecamp. I can't see where it fits with any of those. Interested to see where this goes.
Awesome, been looking for a drive replacement for writing short documents.
I really hope I'll be able to throw out my Simplenote with this :)
This is something cool which I been hoping for.
The name is not very creative since Box came up with Box notes a while ago. Not sure why they didn't try a different name instead.
Seems like a weak attempt to compete with Google Drive.
I read "Dropbox Notes" and instantly thought "awesome! I can finally ditch Evernote". Then I open the link and they talk about "a new way for teams to write together". Firstly, can we please focus on the consumer? Secondly, can we please focus on the UI? Thirdly, I'd just like a github-style UI for personal note taking that is consistent across my browser, phone, tablet and computers. That would be great; introduce language highlighting and it'd be awesome. I'd pay more than my Dropbox fee for that.