Box Launches Box Notes To Take On Google Docs

Note to Box, please make your file formats plain html or something exportable.<p>I think it will take a leap of faith for a company to start creating all their docs on Box, vs Google Docs which has been around longer. I would feel better if I saw them stored in such a way that I wasn&#x27;t afraid I was stuck with you forever.<p>Maybe you can create the first modern, open docs file format for the web. Maybe that&#x27;s just html.<p>IE not .gdoc (.bdoc)<p>That is all to say, I&#x27;m not sure you can win this war on features or usability (vs Apple and Google) but you might be able to win with security + openness.

If it has real, proper, version control with named checkpoints then I&#x27;ll check it out. I still struggle to believe that Google Docs doesn&#x27;t have the ability to create a named version alongside its version-for-every-change tracking.

They should just make a really good Google Spreadsheets.

This has been a long time coming after Box poached one of the top guys on the Google Docs team.

Almost signed up until they required a phone number, with no explanation why.

Why not Box Docs? I like the rhyme.