Will be possible to add a description in Dropbox Paper?

[luisloppes_]

I'd like to know if Dropbox has some plans to have this feature on Dropbox Paper folders, as in the Dropbox itself, we already can add description to a folder, as well as todo's. If this is going to be available, I'd be very happy  Thanks in advance!!

[Walter]

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[Walter]

Hey there @luisloppes_ - thanks for using Paper!

We're always looking for ways to improve Paper, and I'll make sure your comments are passed along to our development team for future consideration.

If you don't mind elaborating a tad on this one, I'd also love to hear more about how you currently use Paper and how you'd like the Paper's Folder's overview (similar to the Folder Overview on Dropbox) to fit into the work that you do. If you're interested in sharing more, could you please answer the questions below? Feel free to answer as many or few as you like.

• How do you currently use (or plan to use) Dropbox Paper for the work that you do?
• Tell us more about how you would use Paper's Folders' Overview to get your work done.
• Lastly, if there's one thing you could change about Paper, what would it be and why?

Thanks in advance for answering these questions! Your feedback helps us make Paper better for all our users! 

[luisloppes_]

Hello Walter, thanks for answering my question!

So, let me explain from the beginning. I'm a online English Teacher in Brazil, looking for providing a great experience for my students and Dropbox Paper was the only one that met my expectations and needs. I had used Google Drive, One Drive, some LMS tools as well, but no one of them provided me the flow and feeling of colaboration that I was looking for and found on Dropbox Paper.

With that said, let me answer your questions:

1 - I currently use (and love) Dropbox Paper as a way to create materials, follow-ups and activities for the students, basically everything I can do in Paper, from attaching YouTube Videos in a Doc to creating checklists and controlling the payments, which is great for me and for the student. However, I have been facing two hardships. First, as I create materials and need to share them individually with different people, I don't have the option to 'make a copy' of the 'template activity' that I've created previously and share with the student.

2 - I've seen the new Dropbox design and it looks amazing for me, I mean, having a kind of chat inside every folder, with the people that this folder is shared with, as well as a todo creation and pinned documents (this is already possible on Paper, thanks :D). So, basically, I'd like to have a todo/checklist tool in each folder, where I'd assign homework, tasks and link videos for the student, for example, just like you guys are implementing on the New Dropbox.

3 - If I would change something about Paper, this would be to add a label sistem, to use in folders, for example: #student, #finance, #todo... paint with the midnight blue color on the left side of Paper, I also would create a new way to see the folders that I have, just like when you create H1 and H2 headlines inside a document and there's a little menu to see all the topics that I've created.

So, I think that's all. Just by adding the todo creation tool in the folders itself would be really amazing for me. Thank you for all the support Walter, have a great weekend!!

[Walter]

Thanks for providing your extensive feedback on this @luisloppes_ - I appeciate you took the time to elaborate on your request!

I'll make sure to let our dev team know about your suggestions in my internal report.

In regards to templatizing your Paper docs, I believe you should be able to do it already by using our templates feature. You can read all about it here:

https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/paper/templates

I hope this helps to some extent and I'm always a post away should you have anything to add or ask. 

Have a wonderful week ahead!

[Walter]

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