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Feedback about Paper updates and changes.
Been using Paper for years and loved using it, until Dropbox started 'developing' it and making it worse.
Using it less and less now and (reluctantly) back to Google Workspace. Next step is to close my Dropbox annual subscription.
Same thing happened with Evernote. It's a train wreck and I've deleted it and thousands of notes over last 15 years
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- Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi Oilbaron, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.
First, in order to get a better understanding, I would like to know which Dropbox Paper platform you're referring to.
If you're experiencing a specific issue, please don't hesitate to share more info for us to review.
The more details, the better. Keep me posted! I have not noticed new problems using Paper on my iPhone 16 and Mac. But I’ll use this excuse to give some thoughts.
I love Paper. A simple word processor has value. Of course you need big complex ones for big complex jobs, but it’s a relief to NOT be able to chose fonts, or color, or a hundred different things. This makes creative writing easier.
I wish some features could easily be turned off. Such as Comments, or that odd way paragraphs turn yellow. And there something buggy that has hurt me, a thing where I try to change a word in the middle of a paragraph, and the whole rest of the paragraph vanishes. Mysterious. Maybe I’m doing something wrong.
In general I’d prefer if Pages was a bit more slow and steady. Maybe because I’m getting old.
- Nancy
Hey johnweidner! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feedback, as well. I’m glad to hear you enjoy using Dropbox Paper and it’s proven useful for your type of work.
As for the issues you mention, can you perhaps share a short video recording with me (in a shared link), so that I can have a visual of the issue at hand and further check what may be happening?
That disappearing text problem of course doesn't happen when I try to make it happen. If I can pin it down more in the future I'll let you know.
And when I looked closer the paragraph turning yellow (using Mac Safari) is an invitation to comment. It's not a problem, just a distraction.
- Nancy
Ah I see, thanks for clarifying that johnweidner!
If you encounter the same issue again with your text disappearing on Dropbox Paper, you can definitely let me know and I’ll take a look for you.
Hey Megan
The one and only Dropbox Paper I've ever used. No hardly using and switching to Google Docs instead...
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