{"id":164641,"date":"2015-11-05T06:47:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T06:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=164641"},"modified":"2015-11-05T06:47:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T06:47:29","slug":"dropboxs-google-docs-competitor-is-launching-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/11\/dropboxs-google-docs-competitor-is-launching-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox’s Google Docs competitor is launching next year"},"content":{"rendered":"
Remember ProjectComposer, the mysterious productivity app Dropbox began testing in the spring? It turns out Project Composer was the code name for Dropbox Paper, a collaborative note-taking app that works inside of Dropbox, which the company quietly launched in beta last month.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, at the company’s Dropbox Open event in San Francisco, Dropbox announced the service will be coming out of beta in 2016. (Those interested in checking it out can sign up for the beta now.) In the meantime, Mashable<\/em> was able to take Paper for a spin.<\/p>\n The best way to describe Paper is a cross between Google Docs and Medium. It has many of the formatting, realtime editing and collaboration features of Google Docs with a design that’s visually similar to Medium’s minimalist aesthetic.<\/p>\n That said, Dropbox is positioning Paper as a collaboration tool, rather than a full-on document editor. So while it has the basic formatting tools you’d expect \u2014 you can format headers, add links and lists, and format text styles \u2014 it lacks some customization features. You can’t change the font or the color of the text, for example.<\/p>\n