Composer - Collaborative notes from Dropbox (limited access)

I’m not allowed in. Is there anything official from Dropbox yet? Or is it something internal?

Randomly in! I have a note or two in hackpad, so perhaps that allowed me access? Really nice so far—some beautiful (beginnings of, it's a bit of a mash up at the moment) typography and very clean interface (reminiscent of evernote's web experience). It allows multiple people to work on a note. You can add tasks, images, dropbox files, tables all in line with your notes. It also prompts you to create a note for a meeting based on what's on your calendar. I can see this being useful in meetings/taking notes together. A bit hard to evaluate how the interaction will stand up when I'm not actually in a meeting/interacting with others on the app, but given we use google drive for a similar use, this could be a valuable switch. A little worried that some of the features are obscured to make the interface super clean, but it's possibly that their use case is that 90% of users will simply take raw, written notes collaboratively.

Interesting. Surprised no one is talking about this. Composer probably isn't supposed to be public yet, although @maggled and a few others seemed to get in. Here's a screenshot she shared on Twitter: Maybe it's available for previous Hackpad users?

I see Dropbox colliding with Evernote, each is moving into the other's direction in many ways

Great to see the work of the super sharp @hackpad team surface again. Congrats to Igor and team. https://hackpad.com/Hackpad-is-t...

There are like 1,000 services that do exactly the same thing. Why would DropBox's be objectively better than Google Docs, Evernote, etc?

This is huge for Dropbox. Collaboration is essential to their future. With the commoditization of file storage and the shift to pure cloud collaboration away from local-cloud-local collaboration, the move away from just file storage to broad collaboration is essential for them. It's not easy to pivot a $10b company though. And collaboration + productivity is hard :) More thoughts on Medium: https://medium.com/@jasonyogeshs...

We ran our whole company on a zillion Hackpads. Can't wait for this.

> Sorry, you're not allowed to use Notes right now. > Email us if you think this in error. This doesn't make any sense :(

Noticed this a few days ago as well (via Quora), and I've got no access as well but it interestingly shows up as an app for me on Dropbox now, right under "Also from Dropbox".

Well this seems interesting...

"We're not ready for prime time. Would you like an invite?"

I hope there will be an iOS App.

And now, in the Dropbox sidebar:

Same here, not allowed to use. Could use this right now actually.

Same here, denied.

Locked out and the email is invalid per Gmail. The first Product Hunt hack??

Had to ask via email for an invite. Fingers crossed!

How is this different from hackpad? Maybe it'll integrate deeper? mmmh