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by the_bear 2208 days ago
Since people are commenting on how they hate Dropbox offering additional products beyond the basic file syncing, I feel compelled to say that I really like Paper. I use it for all my personal note-taking, and our company wiki is in there since they make it really easy to share folders with the whole team. It's basically Google Docs but waaaay faster (both in terms of the actual page speed, and the speed with which I can use it due to the more streamlined UI).

It has the best WYSIWYG markdown editor I've ever used which makes note-taking super simple. Good search, a few nice features like assigning tasks to people within documents, etc. but otherwise it just gets out of your way.

I hear they're about to move it into the core Dropbox file system which could be great (it's always been a bit annoying that Dropbox's main offering is basically just an online file system and yet Paper had a totally different folder structure) but I'm also worried that it might make the experience a bit heavier which would negate the main reason I use it.

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The due date feature on the checklist items are pretty awesome too.

Like you said, my only gripe is that Paper documents don't have any type of local copy, so if your Internet access is out, you're stuck.

IDK about JIRA, but Trello allows offline access and that’s been very helpful at times (works if you have loaded the board while online fairly recently).

So not too small of a nitpick.