Proton Docs Improvements
The ability to have a non-pageless design, a ruler, line spacing so it can be used for academic papers (think double space, 1.15, 1.5, etc...), ability to open PDFs in Proton Docs, word count, and the paint format feature. Also, please add the ability for the mobile versions of Proton Drive to edit Proton Docs in the app or a separate Proton Doc app. I love Proton Docs though it's amazing and the UI is beautiful.
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Bruno Furtado
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It would also be nice to have some of this features:
-Embed Youtube Video
-Collapsible field
-Change default font and if possible had some other fonts
-When some text is formated as heading, to have them showing on the side, making it easy to navigate through the document. -
Mythical Crayon
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Docs is awesome and I am so happy to see it added! I would love to see the following improvements:
1. Dark theme support
2. More file type support like .odt files
3. Separate the document title from the main menu button
- single clicking the document title should start editing the title
- menu button could be movable with toggle lock
4. Open a document in the same tab as Proton Docs.
- The docs home button from a document should also go home on the same tab
5. PAGED option, pageless is nice but limited value
6. More font options
7. Ability to upload our own fonts
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AmauryT
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Also have the ability to change the format of an image (anchored to the page, character, under the text etc.)
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hecker commented
please add the ability to have a non-pageless design pageless is terrible
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Juan Carlos Esguerra commented
And also toggles for the headers so that you can collapse them if you want!
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Jeremy Abel commented
Paint format as new feature please > It would save me so much time.
ps: the updgrade on the color highliting is great and much better than before. Thanks
J
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user
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Please add this! I so need this for formatting documents:
A non-pageless design (pages with page breaks)
A ruler
Ability to open PDFs in Proton Docs
Word count
I can't emphasize how much more I would use Proton Docs if it had just these four features!
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Gabriel Souza commented
Yes and the ability to add footnotes(integration with Zotero maybe?). That is essential for me as a university student.
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Menno
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Would very much like to see a simple search function on the (android) app. Just to find a key word in a big document.
It works on the PC, but would be great to have on the mobile app as well. -
Naxterra
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It should have at least same functionality as Notepad++
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Heather
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Would also love to be able to dictate
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Clark
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I use Google Docs because they are very easy to edit from my phone. If Proton Docs were as easy to use, I would transfer everything over and rid myself of Google forever.
Some improvements to the mobile interface of Proton Docs are:
• Open in view mode by default, and double-tap for Edit mode.
• Indent/outdent buttons should be positioned just above the keyboard (like Google Docs) for quick bullet point editing.
• Dark mode. All mobile interfaces need dark mode because a white interface is super bright at night.A desktop suggestion is to have the table of contents on the left, auto-created from the headings and subheadings. Really long documents need this feature for easy navigation.
Basically just take every feature from Google Docs. Their programmers have thought this stuff through already.
These missing features are preventing me from switching over from Google. Please fix!!
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MeretrixV
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Margins and being able to do first-line indents is basic functionality that will make a world of difference for using Proton Docs as an alternative to Word or Google Docs.
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Bly Rede
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While the line spacing is pending, it would be good if Proton could at least be consistent with it. At the moment I have documents where it's 1 on some lines and 1.5 on others and there's no way of fixing it (and this is text I pasted to match formatting so in theory it shouldn't come from the source). Even remove formatting doesn't make any difference.
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Rforest
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Pageless is key.
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A user
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The 1.5 line spacing is infuriating. You press Enter once and it gives you a new paragraph, not a new line. This is inconsistent with probably 95% of our computer usage, like using Outlook or posting on social media. And when you export the doc as markdown, that one keystroke is converted into two lines in the text file, which, if I want to paste it back into Docs, then effectively doubles again because each physical text line becomes a new paragraph in Docs.
Please make the Docs just do what I tell it to do. If I want a new line, give me a new line. If I want a new paragraph with adequate spacing around it, I'll press Enter twice. That's not an inconvenience for me. But seeing Docs try to guess what my document should look like, instead of just formatting it the way I tell it to, bugs me immensely and is the main reason I don't want to use it.
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T
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Proton Docs desperately needs to attain an MS Office '97 level of basic word processing functionality to be usable. Text editing features used to prepare letters and documents are missing. It is not even possible to change the line spacing! There also needs to be a way to have pages and print/export to PDF. With the increasing importance of moving away from Google Docs I hope core functionality like this will be prioritized.
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Sara
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Having the option to share a link with others would be amazing. It was there a few weeks ago and now it's missing. Plus, Proton only offers Viewer and Editor roles, but not a Commenter role like Google. Adding this feature to your docs which are protected infinitely more than Google Docs, would bring so many authors to you because most of them use Google to share with their alpha and beta Readers. Plus, their editors.
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Tonja
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I would go one further and as for the ability to request e-signatures on our docs. I would love to use this platform for all things business vs having to spread my work across multiple platforms.
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Softwaerewolf
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I think it's important to actually clarify the intended purpose of Proton Docs. If it's a Google Docs/Word equivalent or if it's a Notion/Obsidian equivalent?
Right now it's kind of advertising it self as A and functions closer to B and serves the purposes of neither, it's mostly a novelty that I find myself disappointed with and quickly abandoning in favor of either of the other products listed.