Dropbox Paper vs. SmartDocuments

Dropbox Paper is suited for creating very simple documents, where you are collaborating with other users. It is particularly useful in a work environment that primarily uses Dropbox as a storage and file management solution. If you need to create documents where you need more enhanced formatting features, you would need to use Google Docs, or Microsoft Word.

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• Develop multiple individual projects, setting milestone dates within them.
• Easy to invite others to collaborate on projects.
• Create to-do lists and assign due dates.
• Create documents with multiple types of integrated media, going beyond simple text with images, audio, and video.
• Make edits to documents in real time for all team members to see.

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• Its presentation capabilities can definitely be improved, including how page-by-page presentation is to be done & how aspect ratios are maintained for different resolutions.
• More flexibility in text editing would be a great addition to the text editing functionality, for example, additional fonts would be a nice thing to have.
• Introducing additional to-do list software capabilities or task management functionality would enhance the software greatly as well.

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Paper is a good option for those people looking for a lightweight content creation & collaboration tool & especially if you are already using dropbox. However, all the capabilities that Paper has are not so powerful in-depth of flexibility & range of functionality, for example, for to-do lists or task management there are many other better options out there.

Incentivized

• Dropbox Paper has allowed all of our employees to be much more productive and on track even when we can't be in the office, which from a management standpoint is a huge positive impact. They know that productivity isn't slowing or lacking when everyone isn't actually sitting in the office under their watchful eye.
• It has had a huge impact on our turn around time and speed of getting more work and projects completed. The more work you can effectively get done in a time period means more money for the bottom line.
• It has made the majority of our team members more accountable and reliable when they know everyone is working together on something and each person has their own checklist of items to complete. It is especially helpful that everyone can see the same checklist, so everyone knows what each other is accomplishing.

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