Quip is a solution that allows users, located in different places, to connect to an online meeting and share documents and spreadsheets about their working projects. This way, businesses can continue to grow while employees work from home.
In order to start using Quip, you first have to go through a seamless installation process that can be done by any type of user, regardless of their computer skills. The interface has a modern look, with nicely designed buttons and menus. It is intuitive, has lots of graphic customizations, but it lacks default skin themes. Still, at heavy loads or poor connections, the navigation becomes sluggish.
With Quip, individuals can perform lots of online group activities in order to complete their job tasks. One of them is the possibility of creating spreadsheets with the option to embed charts in the slides. Also, speaking about slides, they include real-time co-editing, they support live data adding, and can integrate feedback polls. Moreover, users have a built-in chat that they can use for every document and spreadsheet, where they can discuss - either 1-on-1 or in groups - and comment about projects.
All in all, Quip is a useful utility for users who need to stay connected in order to complete a team project. The price tag seems decent, so you should give it a try.
v7.1 [Dec 21, 2019]
- Use Live Paste to keep content in sync across multiple documents: Just copy the content you’re interested in, paste it into a different document, then choose Live Paste from the menu that appears below your pasted content. Whenever that content gets updated at the source, it’ll automatically be updated wherever you Live Pasted it. (Note that you can also choose manual updates, if you prefer.) It works for text, lists, tables, images, videos — or any mix of those things — and it’s a simple but powerful way to establish a single source of truth for the content that matters to your team. For Web, Desktop, and Mobile.
- Organize your folders with bulk move and delete: When browsing a folder in list view, you can now move or delete multiple items all at the same time. Hold down option (on a Mac) or alt (on Windows) and click the items you want to select, then head up to the Item menu (or just right-click) to choose what you want to do to them. Keyboard users: You can multi-select by holding command (on a Mac) or control (on Windows) while arrowing up and down, then hitting the space bar. For Web.
