Dropbox Notes - group collaboration online notes service

Yesterday, some users on Product Hunt discovered Dropbox's new online note-taking service called Dropbox Notes. The service is said to have originated with the Dropbox Project Composer project launched after acquiring a company that developed the HackPad coordination model last year. You can now go to www.dropbox.com/notes to register but you can't use it right away.

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Dropbox has not announced the official service yet, so we do not have details. Based on the introduction, Dropbox is " developing a new way for teams to work together ". Thus, Dropbox's solution will be for more work instead of personal notes. For example, you and a group of friends or colleagues will be able to compose an online document together.

Below this registration page is a sample text that shows Dropbox Notes functionality. This text is titled " Weekly team meeting " and different usernames will be displayed in a small, different note box indicating what text they have composed.

Some of the users previously invited by Dropbox said the service offers a neat, clear note-taking experience with a mostly white interface, similar to the Evernote web-based.

In addition, test users also said they could add files, tables and job lists to the notes content. In addition, a user has posted a list of hot keys ( for Mac OS X ) to work with Dropbox Notes text and some features like support for text-only manipulation , allow adding comments .

Overall, the Dropbox Note is quite similar to the previous HackPad Y Combinator service - specifically a quick note application, which supports groups for use in meetings, events or in the classroom. Thus, it is clear that Dropbox Notes does not aim to compete directly with Microsoft Office OneNote but instead will be online editing services hosted on clouds such as Google Docs and Evernote web-based.