Please, include the suggestions others have written. I was about to start a document that was not working with a different word editor and was so disappointed to find that I can't even single-space a document.

Word count would be great

Collapsible headers are a must have

This! This, so much. I really need an alternative to Google Docs or Word that I can actually use for academic writing. The most basic formation is missing, and I can't even make citations.

So important to have at least what makes Word UI easy: it looks like a paper page and not a white background only.

Agree with other comments, plus the ability to use a "navigator" based on headings to quickly jump to different locations in the document (scrolling is just not feasible for lengthy documents). I also noticed that the headings feature acts a bit quirky at times especially when pasting text from another source - I have to enter blank lines, create the heading, then delete the extra lines, just so that my whole paragraph doesn't become a heading!

That said, I do love the design overall, especially the continuous scroll look and feel. (just need dark mode for docs please - already upvoted that on a different post ;-)

All of the missing basic features are what's keeping me from being able to recommend proton drive over google to friends, it's just not usable for the majority of document work right now.

Like many people have already said here, to see a possibility to design even basic page layouts (A4, custom margins) and line spacing would be really great as I would love to write some papers with ProtonDocs. A footnote function would also be really cool even if not crucial at the moment imo.

I would also love to see a dictate option.

Get rid of that ".protondoc" format or at least let us bulk download our .protondoc files as other formats. The ridiculous native format can only be used on the Proton Drive web app while connected to the internet - and also incapable of backing up onto a computer. Any documents you create in Proton Drive are trapped there. I discovered this last month after months of writing in Proton Drive, so I ended up needing to download everything to my computer - except there was no "bulk download as [different format]" option. So I had to go into over 70 files and individually export each as a different format. It took me hours! I was incredibly angry. Don't create documents in Proton Drive unless you don't care about offline access or being able to back them up.

Please can you make Proton Documents a Desktop App so that I can replace Notepad. I love Notepad but it does not sync between PC's. I would love to have stuff open on my notpad at work and then go home and have the same stuff there and it can sync via the Proton Cloud Drive. Also if the current web Documents page could use tabs for different 'pages' in a notebook that would be great!

Mobile version is critical.I would also like to see footnotes added, and ability to write in headers and footers.

I would love to switch from Zoho to Proton Docs (I am a Proton user), but need to be able to create docs in A4 size, and to have print view, word count etc

Nie ilmprovement would be to easily link a ProtonDoc to another, so that you can easily use ProdonDocs files as a wiki

Genuinely the inability to port my gdocs stuff and have it still be readable thanks to the mandatory double line spacing is the biggest thing keeping me from being able to switch off gdrive

A small but somewhat important suggestion I think is to be able to save/download files in .odt format for additional compatibility with LibreOffice.

Please add a dark mode for docs.

Biggest thing for me is Page breaks as I need to print some documents out. Thank you!

I print my documents. Layout matters. Columns and page breaks would be enough to keep me out of Google Docs.

Yes, love Proton Docs; please add things above as well as:
- ability to create multiple columns of text.
- editable page layout (portrait vs landscape)
- ruler features (including editable margins)