Project Composer By Dropbox - The Newest Google Docs & Evernote Rival?

Dropbox, primarily a file hosting service that also deals with offering file syncing and personal cloud services, seems to be venturing into a completely new territory. Though it makes a lot of sense for the company to foray into this domain, the news surprised quite a lot of people, as ever since its launch in 2007, Dropbox has stuck to what it does best. The recent reports suggest that Dropbox is working on a new real-time collaboration note taking app (similar to how Google Docs service works). The news came to light when a Twitter user posted #-Link-Snipped-# saying that she has access to a service named 'Project Composer' by Dropbox, that let users create notes in collaboration with their friends. Incidentally, she also posted a screenshot of the same.

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The tweet making person Maggie Bignell, who works as a product designer at Pocket app, is also a member of the tech product discussion forum called 'Product Hunt'. She got the link to access Project Composer service via the same portal. From the information that has been gathered so far, it seems that Dropbox has been beta testing a new service temporarily named 'Project Composer' which is nothing but an online notepad that lets users create & edit documents, sharing them as Dropbox files are and it get automatically synced with the user's calendar for ease of maintaining versions.

Dropbox has currently taken down the Project Composer service and only those who could access it for the limited time could try using it. Other than plain text, the Dropbox Composer is said to allow adding tables, images, tasks and other dropbox files in a new note. Users have commented about it saying that it features a clean user interface and really beautiful typography and a clean interface.

That said, it may not be incorrect to say that, Dropbox is planning to take on the likes of Google Drive's group editing feature, which has clearly been its forte. There's increasing competition in the online document editing arena, as Box, the other major online file sharing and personal cloud content management service (operating on all major platforms) has also released an app called Notes that does the same thing. Moreover, whenever we think of notes, we can not forget the mobile app giant Evernote, which has been one of the most popular apps on both iOS and Android platforms.

Dropbox is clearly paving its way into the 'increasing productivity' domain as we can't help but mention its recent initiative called 'Project Harmony' under which users can collaborate on MS office documents stored in Dropbox. It was made available to Dropbox's enterprise customers in December 2014.

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