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Quip review 20179/18/2023 The core of Quip provides word processing and spreadsheet functionality, accessible via the Web, an iOS app, and an Android app. In January 2017, Quip acquired the designer studio Unity & Variety. In July 2016, Salesforce announced the acquisition of Quip for an estimated total of $750 million. In 2015, Quip announced it had received a $30 million funding round led by Greylock Partners. The app was well-received, winning accolades as one of the best apps of the year from Time, The Next Web, and The Guardian. Roughly a year later, Quip was launched to the public as a mobile-centric tool for creating shared notes, lists, and documents. Taylor founded the company in 2012, after leaving his position at Facebook. Quip was founded by Bret Taylor, a co-creator of Google Maps, CEO of FriendFeed, and the former CTO of Facebook, along with Kevin Gibbs, who founded Google App Engine. It allows groups of people to create and edit documents and spreadsheets as a group, typically for business purposes. I mean, what, you expect me to highlight a sentence and comment on it to suggest to another writer that she swaps out one word? That's a waste of time.Quip is a collaborative productivity software suite for mobile and the Web. editing and suggesting mode) that I had in Google Docs and were essential to my job as a writer/editor. It's definitely better as a document creator than a project management tool, but even then there are some essential features (i.e. But it also sucks at being a document creator. It lacks the collaborative project management features it needs to make it a successful project management tool. For example, I want to be able to assign cards in an Kanban board to other people, like you would in Asana or Trello. Quip is frustrating because it's really clunky and restrictive. CONSĪt my last job, I used a combination of Google Docs and Asana to manage projects and LOVED it. Kind of nice that you can create a document and a spreadsheet in one place. But really, these are all just small things that are kind of cool, but don't add to the overall usefulness of this software. Like, being able to insert a Kanban board inside a doc isn't something I've seen elsewhere. Google Docs) or project/work management software (i.e. Not a whole lot, but I suppose there are a couple of unique features, compared to document creators (i.e. And enough so that I'd totally risk rocking the boat to get them to transfer to something better. I have to use it because my team does, but I wish I didn't have to. It supports basic data representation objects like tables, pictures, worksheets but if you want audio etc, you want to goto powerpoint. If you are looking for a platform to create animated documents, quip might not be your friend. It behaves odd when creating tables and adding pictures (like indentation sometimes screws up). Onboarding and gettting used to the platform is really easy. You can create an excel sheet (or multiple sheets) in quip itself. You could easily import the content into a wiki or a word document with all the formatting intact. I have found Google Docs to be a bit slower than quip. It is so easy to mark your favorite folders and share it across teams. I could easily create documents that are public (i.e. Its easy to create public/private versions. I love quip as its the only good version controlled platform for taking notes that I have found in my industry experience of over 5 years. We use quip to track our updates, design documents etc and it has proven to be a really powerful platform for the same.
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