Working on a project with multiple people in different locations can be a hassle, so Dropbox wants to make it easy for people to provide feedback on documents on the Web with annotations.
They’re basically a more powerful version of commenting – point and click on the specific area of note in a document, and a text box will appear for you to write your feedback. Alternatively, you can drag a rectangle over an entire piece of a document you mean to reference.
If you’re the person receiving feedback, you can click on an annotation from the comments sidebar to jump quickly to the right spot in a document – allowing you to quickly understand the context around a comment. The annotations are kept across document revisions, too.
Annotations are available to “almost all file types that have previews on dropbox.com,” including PDFs, Word docs, Photoshop files and more.
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The feature is currently only activate for users in the Dropbox early access program, but that means it’s only a matter of time until it rolls out to the rest of users. Likewise, it currently only works on the Web, but will likely arrive on mobile sooner or later.
➤ Annotate your docs for faster-than-email feedback [ExampleSource]
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