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jaymann
New member | Level 2
2 months ago

New Paper interface is horrible...

Hi all

I just had my paper docs migrated into my Dropbox account. However, I still have access to www.dropbox.com/paper. There is a new Paper UI that initially shows only a couple of files. For some reason, this new UI has a completely different conceptual model or way of working. And many of the basic conventions we had in the previous Paper UI have been removed or replaced by strange alternatives.

For instance, a search on this empty space will actually return the results of your migrated Paper docs. They can be filtered, but incredibly, they cannot be sorted.

On the left side, there is a sidebar that is almost empty. Apparently, it's up to the user to create a navigation structure there and populate it with documents. I challenge you to find who to do it, but drag and drop doesn't work.

I was not offered any type of onboarding or tutorial to transition to this new UI. So, I guess I'll have to discover my way through it little by little. But honestly, I don't know if this new UI will also be removed soon.

Can anybody explain what happened with Paper?

Thanks

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  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
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    Thanks for posting here today, jaymann.

    Your feedback is highly appreciated and I’ve made sure our team can see your comments, as well.

    Please feel free to send over a few screenshots of what you see on your end, so that we can also have a visual.

    As for learning more about the new Dropbox Paper interface, you can find more details in this Help Center article.

    I’ll be here, if you need something else.

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