When you log in, you see a sidebar with your day’s events, and you’re one click away from creating a new document that has logical places for meeting notes, next steps, and so on, and it offers to invite everyone who was invited to the event.

The integration with my calendar is really nice. I don’t know this to be part of any Markdown spec I’m familiar with, but it makes a ton of sense in this context. Tasks and todo’s, assigned, discussed, and sortable.Ī similar feature is linking to your other documents with a + prefix. They can check them off, and the original document updates. That means I can take notes at our Monday meeting, quickly assigning one after another task to the team (or client), and they’re just on their todo lists like that. But Paper already supports that very same feature on iOS. In fact, it doesn’t work at all on iOS devices. This is something that OneNote has offered in theory, but it wasn’t designed that way from the start so it doesn’t work very well. Paper consolidates all your todos for you. Comments work well on images, giving you the option to comment on one or more specific areas of an image, or the image overall. Clicking on one image makes it full screen, and lets you flip through all the images quickly. If you paste several images in sequence, they form into a gallery. Media and embedded content is handled well. You can be notified when someone is reading your document, who is looking at it while you are, and of course what part of it they might be working on.

This is table stakes in this day and age, but Paper handles it very well. Much like competing products, it lets you co-edit documents in realtime, and works across all the devices I would consider using. It works great with a number of popular services, and can talk to Slack. It is very embed-friendly, and very drag-and-drop friendly. It assumes you’re okay with writing in Markdown, which is pretty damn common these days, even if you’re not conscious that you’re using it. And they don’t even appear until you make a selection. Toolbars are based on Markdown, so they aren’t necessary.

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