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Dropbox's next play, Paper, is yet another collaborative writing tool

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<p>If there’s one space in the software world that’s crowded, it’s the document collaboration market. Google, Microsoft, Evernote, Box, Quip and a whole host of other companies all want to get a piece of the pie.</p><p>Dropbox just threw its hat in that ring Thursday with the public beta release of Paper, the simple, collaborative and cloud-based text editor that it previewed in Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/15/dropbox-paper-team-collaboration-tools/) and Wired (http://www.wired.com/2015/10/dropbox-paper-all-in-one-work-tool/). A document in Paper starts simple: Users only see a title field and a body field when they open a new file. But those Paper documents can hold a great deal, like previews of files stored in Dropbox and Google Drive. People can also use paper to create to-do lists that they share with collaborators, and they can assign tasks on those lists using an @ symbol. Coders can even get something out of it, because Paper automatically formats code that gets typed into one of its documents.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2994094/software-productivity/dropboxs-next-play-is-yet-another-collaborative-writing-tool.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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