Dropbox has been building out
Paper, its document-driven collaboration tool since it was
first announced in 2015, slowly but surely
layering on more functionality. Today, it added a timeline feature, pushing beyond collaboration into a light-weight project planning tool.
Dropbox has been hearing that customers really need a way to plan with Paper that was lacking. “That pain—the pain of coordinating all those moving pieces—is one we’re taking on today with our new timelines feature in Dropbox Paper,” the company
wrote in a blog post announcing the new feature.
As you would expect with such a tool, it enables you to build a timeline with milestones, but being built into Paper, you can assign team members to each milestone and add notes with additional information including links to related documents.
You can also embed a To-do lists for the person assigned to a task right in the timeline to help them complete the given task, giving a single point of access for all the people assigned to a project
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