Box looks beyond cloud storage with note-taking app

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Juan Carlos Perez.

Box, the Silicon Valley darling that has disrupted enterprise cloud storage and file sharing, will broaden its scope into the content-creation space with a new online note-taking application. Box Notes, to be unveiled on Monday at the company’s BoxWorks conference in San Francisco, will provide a word processor-like interface where colleagues can add content to the document and co-edit it in real time.

The application, which will be a standard component of the Box product, is in a limited test release. Interested testers need to request access by signing up at Box.com/notes. The company is looking at next year for releasing it in final form. "This is our first step into content creation and productivity [software]," said Chris Yeh, Box’s senior vice president of product and platform…

The goal of Box Notes is to help people capture information and share it with others easily. Box will likely develop more content creation and collaboration tools. As with Box Notes, it will try to make them in a way that they don’t overwhelm users with an excess of features, Yeh said, echoing a common complaint against the Microsoft Office applications…

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