“We see Paper really being this place to allow teams to collaborate across all their information,” he said. Rob Baesman, the head of product at Dropbox, said in an interview that the company thinks people will reach for Paper as a tool to help collate information from different sources and kick-start their process of working on an idea. Monday’s announcements are part of Dropbox’s overall push to make its product more useful and appealing to business users, as it competes in the crowded cloud storage market. When a user goes to open a file that’s not stored locally, it’s downloaded from Dropbox’s servers. Rather than requiring them to use the storage service’s web interface, Smart Sync shows users placeholder versions of those files in the MacOS Finder or Windows Explorer.
The idea behind it is simple: Users store more files in Dropbox than they want to sync to each individual computer they work with. Smart Sync is the official name for a feature that Dropbox unveiled last year as Project Infinite. It’s designed to be the product people use for collaborative tasks like brainstorming and taking meeting notes.Ī screenshot shows how Smart Sync looks in the MacOS Finder. Paper, first announced in 2015, gives users a shared workspace to work with one another on documents. The cloud storage company announced the general availability of its Paper document collaboration service, along with the closed beta of a Smart Sync feature that gives users easy access to every file shared with them in Dropbox. Dropbox kicked off its 2017 product launches with a pair of major announcements Monday aimed at improving users’ productivity at work.
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