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Create the ability to make and use Custom Templates in Paper

Create the ability to make and use Custom Templates in Paper

David C.12
Helpful | Level 5

We have several meetings a month that use a custom meeting template for agenda and notes. It would be really nice to have the set up automatically in dropbox paper and be able to use them as templates.

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OpusCreo
New member | Level 2

To us, this is a basic need for any company that does the same thing over and over (i.e. virtually every company in the world)

Our basic need is to create a complex checklist and then clone it (Blank) for each client that needs the checklist to be fulfilled.

Once the checklist is completed, it needs to be kept for that client.

 

I think this is really simple and copying and pasting the content of the checklist is one way to do it, but does seem to be a little antiquated in today's world where you can generally, clone, duplicate and share everything.

We were considering using Paper instead of Trello and Evernote, but until this is resolved, we will probably just play with it and continue using Evernote and Trello. Right now Paper looks like it has great potential, but it doesn't do anything that Evernote doesn't already do better.

somaru
Explorer | Level 3

Add my vote for doc copy and templating the simpler the better.

mraimondi
New member | Level 2

A copy/duplicate function is absolutely neccesary, and templates would be the icing on the cake.

Derekk
New member | Level 2

I simply select all then ctrl a and open a new paper and paste
Not as easy as one button click but works for me

PieterNZ
New member | Level 2

This would be a great addition. I currently copy paste all, but templates are a lot more intuitive, and gives the possibility for automatic date fields etc. (even OneNote has this)

jaknaw
New member | Level 2

Hey!

 

I use Dropbox Paper in order to keep my scientific research and other work-related stuff clean. It would be teriffic if I were able to use templates! :relieved: 

aroy002
Helpful | Level 6

Is the team working on this?

Juwi
Explorer | Level 3

Our company would also love a "Save as template.." feature since we use Paper for a lot of different projects with the same setup

bdrnielsen
New member | Level 2

A save as template feature would be great - I'm trying to roll out Paper across our organisation, but it won't fly without the ability to create templates..

MattAccountKit
New member | Level 2

Templates - I have created folders in which I want to store documents in. For example when we have staff meetings i want to be able to click on a template minutes document, change the date and then start typing. Presently is seems the only way to do this is to go back to the welcome page to create new meeting notes. 

If there is no way of doing this then i would suggest there be a Save As funtion to save a new document under a new name or something similar.
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