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Virtually Myself® vs Dropbox
A filing cabinet vs a research assistant
Dropbox is superb at what it was built for: simple, reliable storage and sharing of your files, anywhere. But it's a filing cabinet, it holds your work without understanding it. Search finds a filename; it can't find an idea, and it certainly can't help you think with what's inside.
Virtually Myself® treats the same material completely differently. Upload a PDF and it's searchable by concept; upload a keynote recording and it's searchable by idea; a handwritten model scanned from a notebook gets read, tagged and surfaced when it's relevant, then turned into content in your own voice.
What Dropbox is great at
- Simple, reliable file storage and sync
- Easy sharing across devices and people
- A familiar, dependable home for your files
- Access to your files anywhere
What Virtually Myself® adds
- Search by concept and idea, not just filename
- Understands 15+ formats, documents, audio, video, images, handwriting
- Connects to the Dropbox you already use
- Turns your material into content in your own voice
- Maps themes and connections across your body of work
The bottom line
Dropbox is where your work sits. Virtually Myself® is a research assistant who's read all of it.
Virtually Myself® can connect to the storage you already use, it adds understanding on top of it, rather than replacing it.
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