#Dropbox paper app update#
#Dropbox paper app code#
#Dropbox paper app plus#
#Dropbox paper app mac#

Click the settings cog and the dropdown menu beside Send desktop notifications. To ensure notifications are pushed to your desktop as they happen, go to and click the bell icon in the upper right corner. While there is no Paper app for desktop, the notifications should push through the Dropbox desktop applications.

#Dropbox paper app update#

The latest update to the Paper beta brings notifications to the web, mobile and desktop. Selecting a contact will send a notification to them. Paper will narrow the results based on other collaborators added to the document and contacts from your connected Google account. Type the at symbol and start typing their name or email address. You can mention other collaborators within the body of a document or within comments.

#Dropbox paper app plus#

To discover other hotkeys, highlight text or click the plus sign on a new line and hover your cursor over any of the buttons. Other text editor commands should work within Paper, as well. Typing will narrow the results and you can click or use your arrow keys and return or enter to select and insert an emoji. Typing a colon followed by a space will open an emoji search.

#Dropbox paper app mac#

Highlighting text and pressing Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux or Command+K on Mac will allow you to quickly hyperlink that text.

Highlighting the text and pressing Ctrl+B on Windows and Linux or Command+B on Mac also works.

Adding two asterisks or two underscores to either side of a word, sentence or paragraph will make it bold.

Highlighting the text and pressing Ctrl+I on Windows and Linux or Command+I on Mac also works.

Adding one asterisk or one underscore to either side of a word, sentence or paragraph will italicize it.

#Dropbox paper app code#

Wrapping text in two sets of three back ticks (```) will create a code snippet.

Other in-line shortcuts you may find helpful are:

Entering three hyphens creates a divider.

Typing open and close bracket without a space between them starts a checklist.

A number and a period followed by a space will start an ordered list.

A hyphen followed by a space will start an unordered list.

Likewise, # will insert an H2 header and # will create an H3 header.

Typing # and adding a space will create an H1 header.

Getting to know the shortcuts will help you add elements to your Paper documents faster, and if you're familiar with Markdown at all, the shortcuts will feel very natural. Pressing it once more will delete the rows, columns or the entire table. Once selected, pressing Delete will remove all content from the cells. Clicking the border cell in the upper left corner will select all cells in the table. Click one of the border cells to select all cells in that row or column. To delete an entire row or column, click inside the table to reveal the borders. To insert a new row or column, click anywhere inside the table and look for one of the grey dots near one of the intersects of the cells. Immediately, a four-cell (two-by-two) table will appear. To create a table, hover your cursor over a new line and click the plus sign. The easiest table creation you've ever used To rearrange those pictures, you can drag and drop them within the document and they will automatically resize and arrange themselves in a collage-style layout. If you're using Paper from the web client at, you can easily drag and drop any photos that you want to add to a document from your desktop. After the media has embedded itself, you can choose to leave or delete the URL other collaborators will also be able to comment on the media.

Paste a link to a YouTube video, SoundCloud audio file, GIF, picture or any other media and Paper will automatically embed the media into the document. Paper not only supports rich text, but rich media embedding.