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How we use Dropbox: Youcef Captures the moment
We love to share stories of how our Dropboxer colleagues use Dropbox. Whether youâre using Dropbox for project management or to organize photos, itâs always handy to share tips and advice. We all have slightly different roles, and everybody has different preferences when it comes to workflows. You might have seen YoucefDropbox on the Dropbox Community before, but weâre his biggest fans and he is a Dropbox Capture expert so I asked him to share some info on how he uses Dropbox. How I use Dropbox Capture in my day to day work I use Dropbox Capture often to explain things quickly to my team and ensure everyone is on the same page. Capture has many useful features, like creating GIFs in no time or adding markup while recording a video. But there is one that I particularly love that many don't know about yet, so check out my capture below to discover it. We love to hear about useful little tips like this, they so easily become part of our daily routines and save a lot of busy work. Do you have any of those helpful little tips to share? Leave it in the comments below! And if youâre new to the tool, discover how to get started with Dropbox Capture in our simple guide.đđ€Community Spirit Badge đ€đ
Hey everyone! đ Itâs Theresa here. Youâve probably seen me hanging out in the Community, jumping into conversations and joining discussions (if you havenât seen me before, well, hello đ). And while doing that, Iâve noticed something pretty great (well, we all have here on the Dropbox Community Team) â so many of you are out here making this Community an amazing place. Whether you're helping others, sharing useful tips, or just bringing good vibes âš, your contributions really stand out. To recognise and celebrate this, weâve created a brand-new badge⊠This badge is all about celebrating the people who make this space feel like home. Itâs for those who do more than just answer questions â the ones who offer a helping hand đ€, share great tips đĄ, and keep the good vibes flowing. Whether you're solving tricky problems đ§©, sharing useful resources đ, or just making the Community a fun place to hang out đ, we see you and we appreciate you. The Community Spirit Badge is a one-time award đ, so if you earn it, you know you're doing something special. It's a little extra recognition for those who truly bring the Community to life. Weâre so excited đ to launch this new badge and canât wait to start recognizing the amazing individuals who truly bring the spirit of this Community to life. And if you spot someone who you think deserves the Community Spirit Badge, donât hesitate to tag me Theresa within the thread. T đ (Dropbox Community Manager)
Open Feedback to Dropbox
Dropbox has the potential to make a huge leap forward not by inventing something radically new, but by strengthening and bundling the tools it already has. Hereâs what could truly make the difference for many professionals and businesses: Reintroduce and expand Dropbox Capture. Today, video and screen recording is a daily need for teams, customer support, and remote collaboration. This tool should not disappear, it should be stronger. Enhance and integrate e-signature features. Make them more seamless, reliable, and part of the core Dropbox experience. For the Italian market, enabling authentication with the CIE (Electronic Identity Card) would make the application a must-have and extremely interesting. Boost DocSend, review its interface and make it more user-friendly. The tool is powerful, but its full potential emerges only when itâs intuitive to use and included in an accessible bundle. Significantly increase file sync capacity. Many users complain about the ~500,000 files (or performance decline oltre i ~300.000 file sincronizzati sul computer) limit in Dropboxâs desktop app The winning move would be to create a unified, accessible bundle that combines these tools at a fair price. This would bring clear, tangible value to users and set Dropbox apart from competitors in a meaningful way. Sometimes innovation is not about the next big thing. Itâs about making what you already have indispensable.
Discover Dropbox Transfer in video!
Hi beloved Community! Has any of you used Dropbox Transfer, our feature allowing you to share large files to anyone, Dropbox user or not? We put together a video featuring Madison, one of our Product Marketing Manager who built this amazing feature, and some of our users who will explain themselves, in their own words, how Transfer works! Check Dropbox Transfer video here! Did you like this video? And would you like to see more lightweight, educational videos on Dropbox features in the future?What Do You Want to See on the Community?
Hey everyone, my name is Emmet and Iâm in charge of the Experience for our users on the Dropbox Community. The Community Team is working on improvements to the Community and your voices are important to this conversation. We want to know what you think weâre doing well and what you feel we could be doing better. When giving feedback, please be as detailed as possible. The more information we have the better. Your experience can be about any part of the Community experience from creating an account, posting a thread, receiving emails etc. Please feel free to let us know what you think about all our sections and any features/areas of the Community you would like to see in the future. Also, while we do work closely with other areas of the support experience, this thread is specifically about the Dropbox Community. We pass on feedback about other areas of support to those teams as we receive them, but the focus of this thread is on the Community experience.
How we use Dropbox: Paul
Weâre back with another edition of âHow we use Dropboxâ and I have to say, Iâm really excited about this one. Youâve heard us talk about working from home, and Dropbox is a remote first company but we recently for back into the office, now known as the Studio - and the super heroes that updated the space and got it ready to welcome us back includes Paul. Paul and the team tackled a mountain of work to make that a reality, and they used Dropbox to do it, so here are some of the ways they did that, in Paulâs own words. Once everyone was set up to work from home and we were starting to understand the new normal, we started planning the office 2.0. From October 2020 my team and I were working on the Dublin Studio Project. Throughout this project, we had multiple workshops, kicking off with a group session featuring some internal and external stakeholders to help define the look and feel of our studio. We also planned our furniture itinerary and planting strategy via a virtual Miro Board, which was integrated with Dropbox so we all had access to the most up to date files and could work collaboratively in realtime, and asynchronously too. Once the decisions were made, we then used Dropbox Paper to transfer this all of this information into tables where we could track orders and quantities etc. I love how easy it is to move things around in the tables on Dropbox Paper, and our external vendor was able to edit and comment on the table and let us know of any tweaks that need to be made. Then as the furniture arrived and we organized the new space, we were able to tick off the sections one by one until we were ready to open! A lot of our role requires helping employees feel safe when they are at work and creating content to convey our health and safety policies. For example have used a Dropbox Capture to create our mandatory fire marshall training. Weâve also used this tool to help create video content for region wide meetings. Capture is fast, intuitive and a really smooth way of creating great content. We know as much as the next person that too many process docs can lose you! We use Dropbox for so many things in the process of running the day to day - planning events, managing files, working with all the different teams who come in and out of the Dublin Studio and I wouldnât have it any other way! Having seen the proof of all this excellent work, I have to say, I am Paul (and the teamâs) number one fan, and I love to see how Dropbox was used for something so tangible! Have you ever used Dropbox to manage a project with visible results before?
