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“Final products are converted to relevant formats and stored along with the rest of my life in Dropbox.”
Jess Levine Interview, Writer, musician, game designer · via Uses This 
“Zencastr records the audio in high quality at everyone's end, so even if the VoIP goes wobbly you've still got a clean recording - which it then dumps into Dropbox or wherever.”
Stilgherrian Interview, Journalist, podcaster, media producer · via Uses This 
“Dropbox for sharing my Scrivener files between computers.”
Casey Johnston Interview, Writer, editor · via Uses This 
“I dropped Dropbox and Google's file sync applications years ago and never looked back, for example.”
Justin Searls Interview, Programmer · via Uses This 
“I also have most of my bigger projects backed up with Dropbox and use it to share files with clients.”
Noah Kalina Interview, Artist, photographer · via Uses This 
“I use those markdown files for todo lists, meeting notes, research paper summaries, book notes, writing articles and more that and all these files are mostly stored in a shared Dropbox.”
Elle Meredith Interview, Software engineer/consultant (Blackmill) · via Uses This 
“I use Dropbox like a life preserver - any project I'm working on has an alias on the desktop linked to a folder in Dropbox.”
Graydon Sheppard Interview, Writer, director, performer · via Uses This 
“I'm also a huge proponent of using Dropbox for some light version control on art files, it's saved me a few times on corrupt files and accidental overwrites.”
Lyndsey Gallant Interview, Art director, concept artist · via Uses This 
“Dropbox holds my files and docs.”
Rupert Parry Interview, Creative technologist, musician · via Uses This 
“DropBox, 50% for keeping a cloud copy of my most recent work, and 50% to share large files with other people via download links.”
Jordan B. L. Smith Interview, Researcher, music information retrieval · via Uses This 
“It functions like Dropbox but it's decentralized and uses the BitTorrent protocol.”
Ziba Scott Interview, Indie game developer (Popcannibal) · via Uses This 
“Dropbox is for keeping my personal docs in order.”
Elena Zaharova Interview, Designer, art director · via Uses This 
“I'd say the central piece of software I use is Dropbox, which syncs subsets of my entire filesystem across all of my computing devices: iPhone, iPad, laptops, and desktops.”
Philip Guo Interview, Cognitive science professor · via Uses This 
“For files, I keep a meticulously organized Dropbox, where all my non-Drive work lives.”
Dante Douglas Interview, Writer, game designer · via Uses This 
“I save most of my files in Dropbox to keep them synced between my desktop and laptop, and to give me easy access to everything from my phone.”
Scott Jon Siegel Interview, Game designer · via Uses This 
“Dropbox for personal file storage, including cloud photo backups.”
Jess Allison Interview, Organiser, producer, delivery manager (Paper Giant) · via Uses This 
“I'm also a fan of Dropbox --- I'm in a weekly songwriting group where we upload a song a week to a shared Dropbox, which helps keep us creative and community-oriented no matter where we are all touring.”
Heather Styka Interview, Singer-songwriter · via Uses This 
“I personally use Dropbox for sharing and backing up, but I'm not under any illusion that my data is any safer from algorithmic surveillance on there as opposed to Google or Apple.”
Tim Maughan Interview, Writer, journalist · via Uses This 
“Dropbox to share files is essential as well.”
Jenn Sandercock Interview, Game designer · via Uses This 
“We use Synology units for local file access, with their great cloud sync feature so we can keep portfolios updated via Dropbox.”
Jeremy Wortsman Interview, Founder of The Jacky Winter Group · via Uses This 
“Dropbox Pro is my go-to for file storing and sharing docs I'm not collaborating on.”
Hannah Nicklin Interview, Writer, narrative designer, producer, cyclist · via Uses This 
“I use Dropbox to (attempt to) sync things among my several computers.”
Jenny Odell Interview, Conceptual artist · via Uses This 
“As it stands, I dump my archival images to Dropbox and then promptly evacuate them to my own servers.”
Charles Berret Interview, Communications Ph.D. student (Columbia) · via Uses This 
“Across all projects and disciplines, I use Dropbox obsessively.”
Chris Remo Interview, Game designer, composer (Campo Santo), podcaster (Idle Thumbs) · via Uses This 
“My assets are stored in Dropbox folders, using a classification system that could be described as the "reverse Kondo method" (i.e.: I just create folders and throw things inside).”
Javier Arce Interview, Designer, illustrator, web developer (CARTO) · via Uses This 
“Finally, I have almost everything on my laptop backed up to a giant Dropbox account.”
Louisa Heinrich Interview, Designer, founder (Superhuman Limited) · via Uses This 
“But I do use Dropbox for sharing files between home, work and clients.”
Raymond Gangstad Interview, Colorist, online artist (Shortcut Oslo) · via Uses This 
“And Dropbox, which wormed its way into my life and now I can't get it out.”
Emily Nagoski Interview, Sex educator, author · via Uses This 
“Dropbox keeps personal and work documents syncced to the cloud.”
Jesse Vincent Interview, Developer, CTO of Keyboardio · via Uses This 

“I use Dropbox when I want to sync via the cloud and to share files, but only for things that I don't mind losing control of.”
Bruce Schneier Interview, Security technologist · via Uses This 
“I keep non-Kindle ebooks in Dropbox and sync them to BlueFire, very convenient!”
Erin McKean Interview, Founder of Wordnik · via Uses This 
“For files that I need access to from everywhere I use Dropbox.”
Mihai Parparita Interview, Software engineer · via Uses This 

“Dropbox: it's essential for everything I do.”
Greg Maletic Interview, Developer (Panic), illustrator · via Uses This 
“I use Dropbox to exchange files.”
Beau Sorenson Interview, Recording engineer, musician · via Uses This 
“For my part, I capture using QuickTime and upload the raw audio file using Dropbox.”
Kate Welch Interview, Podcaster, designer (ArenaNet) · via Uses This 
“Dropbox is my main document directory, so I always have access to my files on other devices or can easily share files.”
Catherine Mulbrandon Interview, Designer (Visualizing Economics) · via Uses This 
“I love Day One because it's super easy to sync across all my devices, and backs up to Dropbox.”
Madelin Woods Interview, Developer (Square), artist · via Uses This 
“I also use DropBox a lot, although I'd prefer not to move to something self-hosted and open source.”
Sam Lavigne Interview, Programmer, artist · via Uses This 
“Dropbox for Business is invaluable for sending big files round the world.”
Katie Shelly Interview, Media designer (Cooper-Hewitt Labs) · via Uses This 
“Speaking of fires, all my files are synced on Dropbox and I save very little to my machine itself.”
Yuri Victor Interview, Developer, user experience designer (Vox Media) · via Uses This 
“My other can't-live-without-it cloud/desktop software is Dropbox.”
Elizabeth Lawley Interview, Professor, School of Interactive Games and Media (RIT) · via Uses This 
“I use Dropbox a lot as well.”
David Sirlin Interview, Game designer (Sirlin Games) · via Uses This 
“Dropbox and Apple's Airdrop are used often to share files quickly.”
Anita Sarkeesian Interview, Media critic, creator (Feminist Frequency) · via Uses This 
“You can use it like a more sophisticated and private Dropbox.”
Marius Eriksen Interview, Software developer (Twitter) · via Uses This 
“I would also be completely lost without Dropbox, I use it every single day.”
Chris Darden Interview, Board game designer (Dungeon Roll) · via Uses This 
“We use Dropbox to transfer video files or FTP.”
Stuart Watson Interview, Investigative reporter (WCNC-TV) · via Uses This 

“I also occasionally use Dropbox, especially when I need to deal with pesky office documents.”
Daniel Lemire Interview, Computer researcher, professor · via Uses This 
“I keep big datasets and shared files in Dropbox - we have a teams account, so I have 1 TB (!) of storage there.”
Hadley Wickham Interview, Chief scientist (RStudio) · via Uses This 
“And I can't imagine life without Dropbox.”
Tony Konecny Interview, Coffee guy (Tonx) · via Uses This 
“I keep all my design work synced between my two computers using Dropbox.”
Cory Schmitz Interview, Graphic designer, illustrator · via Uses This 
“I also still have my copy of Photoshop 5.5 running on a thumbdrive on my keychain, as well as sitting on Dropbox, along with XnView.”
Derek Chatwood Interview, Game designer, illustrator · via Uses This 
“To keep everything manageable across different locations, I rely on Dropbox to backup and sync all my important stuff.”
Paul Tweedy Interview, Senior Technical Architect, BBC · via Uses This 
“All my stuff lives on Dropbox now, where anyone could just hack in and find a really bad first draft of a short story about a toilet overflowing on a space station.”
Chris Dahlen Interview, Video game writer, coder · via Uses This 
“And of course, none of this would be possible without Dropbox.”
Peter Molfese Interview, Research scientist (Haskins Labs) · via Uses This 
“Dropbox syncs my files across my different Apple devices.”
Nicole Jones Interview, Writer, editor (Facebook) · via Uses This 

“I also use Dropbox as a file transfer and sharing service.”
Robin Camille Davis Interview, Digital librarian, web developer · via Uses This 
“Everything work-related is backed up to Dropbox.”
Gabriel Roth Interview, Writer, web developer · via Uses This 

“:-) We also use Dropbox for our file storage and everyone has a variety of iOS and Android devices for testing the latest builds and playing Drop7.”
Daniel Cook Interview, Chief Creative Officer, Spry Fox · via Uses This 

“I'd be lost with Dropbox to work on projects with people remotely.”
Jason Babler Interview, Creative Director (MAKE), sculptor · via Uses This 
“Because the Air's HD is small, it's easy to backup and sync to the cloud with Dropbox.”
Rob Giampietro Interview, Designer (Project Projects), writer · via Uses This 
“All my documents are in Dropbox.”
Nick Nunns Interview, Owner, brewer (TRVE Brewing Company) · via Uses This 
“Dropbox - everyone should be using Dropbox.”
Ryan North Interview, Cartoonist (Dinosaur comics) · via Uses This 
“Dropbox: I've just got the one MacBook Air, so I don't have a need to sync files and folders across multiple computers.”
Shawn Blanc Interview, Writer (shawnblanc.net) · via Uses This 
“All my important documents are backed up with Dropbox so I can get to them when I'm not in front of my computer.”
Avery Edison Interview, Stand-up comedian, writer · via Uses This 
“All my work goes in Dropbox, in addition to the external backup and the copy actually on my iMac.”
Antony Johnston Interview, Writer (Wasteland, Dead Space) · via Uses This 
“Dropbox for syncing the kitchen sink.”
Nick Disabato Interview, Designer, tree killer (Distance, Cadence & Slang) · via Uses This 
“Nearly everything I work on is stored in Dropbox.”
Mandy Brown Interview, Designer, writer, editor (A Book Apart) · via Uses This 
“For backup, I switched to Dropbox, and I play whatever is available on Steam for Mac and just play fewer games now as a consequence.”
Bret Taylor Interview, CTO (Facebook), co-founder (FriendFeed) · via Uses This 
“Dropbox is where anything I need to preserve goes.”
Divya Manian Interview, Web developer (Opera, W3C, HTML5 Boilerplate) · via Uses This 
“DropBox has become my documents folder.”
Brent Simmons Interview, Mac, web developer (Glassboard, ex-NetNewsWire) · via Uses This 
“Dropbox for storing crucial files I need to get at from anywhere.”
Joshua Topolsky Interview, Co-founder, editor (The Verge) · via Uses This 
“I keep active projects in Dropbox, where I can access them across all my machines and share selected folders with colleagues.”
Jessica Hammer Interview, Game psychologist, designer · via Uses This 
“Other software I use almost daily: Dropbox for commonly accessed files.”
Adrian Holovaty Interview, Web developer (EveryBlock, Django), musician · via Uses This 
“I sync everything through Dropbox and it all ends up in nvALT one way or another.”
Brett Terpstra Interview, Developer, AOL Tech (Engadget, TUAW) and nvALT · via Uses This 
“I use Dropbox for syncing, and it goes to a server in the closet at home for nightly backups.”
Amber Case Interview, Cyborg anthropologist, UX designer · via Uses This 
“I use Dropbox for almost everything I need to store.”
Douglas Rushkoff Interview, Media theorist, writer · via Uses This 
“I'm a paying Dropbox customer (50GB), and while I don't use it all, I use it enough to make it really valuable.”
Ed Finkler Interview, Web developer (Gimme Bar, Spaz) · via Uses This 
“So I've just started to use DropBox, which seems to be great.”
Misha Glouberman Interview, Teacher, improviser · via Uses This 
“Until fairly recently, I depended on a WD-Passport as my storage on the move - slimline, good capacity and nice and quick - but these days DropBox does it better and is much less faff (see below).”
Meg Pickard Interview, Creative geek (The Guardian) · via Uses This 
“I've tried juggling multiple computers before, and it just drove me mad, and still would even with tools like Dropbox.”
Tom Armitage Interview, Game designer, technologist (Hide and Seek) · via Uses This 
“I keep an extra backup of all my documents on Dropbox.”
John Resig Interview, Programmer (jQuery) · via Uses This 

“Wherever possible I have Dropbox installed - in just a few months it's become an invaluable tool for swapping files between machines and distant colleagues.”
Tony Warriner Interview, Game developer, co-founder (Revolution) · via Uses This 
“Also, life would be unbearable without Dropbox.”
Mark Jardine Interview, Designer (Tapbots) · via Uses This 

“Dropbox makes me believe in magic.”
Frank Chimero Interview, Designer, illustrator, writer · via Uses This 

“I keep current project files on Dropbox, and for the few apps I use everyday that don't have some kind of built-in sync support, I store the library files in a Dropbox folder.”
Wilson Miner Interview, Web designer (Rdio) · via Uses This 
“My ~/Documents are managed by Dropbox so I never need to worry when my computer gets stolen.”
Rasmus Andersson Interview, Designer, programmer (Spotify, Facebook) · via Uses This 
“Memeo pushes stuff to my external drive every time autosave fires, my main work folders live in Dropbox, and everything gets emailed out through Gmail so a copy lodges in the Gcloud.”
Warren Ellis Interview, Writer (Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein) · via Uses This 

“Important files that I want to share with the iPad are also in Dropbox.”
Matt Biddulph Interview, Prototyper, strategy guy (Nokia/Dopplr) · via Uses This 

“Dropbox is where the files go.”
Michael Sippey Interview, VP Corp Development (Six Apart/SAY) · via Uses This 
“Other installed apps include Dropbox, Google Translate, Kindle, and OpenTable.”
Robert Love Interview, Software engineer (Google) · via Uses This 
“DropBox is terrific and I use it more and more.”
Kieran Healy Interview, Sociologist · via Uses This 
“Another thing that supports the illusion that my iMac travels with me when I go to work is Dropbox.”
Neven Mrgan Interview, Designer (Panic Inc.) · via Uses This 
“I keep all my files in Dropbox, but I'm trying to get rid of as much data as possible.”
Dustin Curtis Interview, Writer, UX designer · via Uses This 
“I can't say enough good things about DropBox.”
Anne Halsall Interview, Interface/UI designer · via Uses This 
“I'm madly in love with Dropbox.”
Loren Brichter Interview, Mac/iPhone developer (Tweetie) · via Uses This 
“Dropbox -- a shared folder between all my Macs.”
Jeffrey Zeldman Interview, Web designer, fan of Web Standards · via Uses This 
“Dropbox is recent addition to my "essentials" list.”
John Siracusa Interview, Programmer, writer (Ars Technica) · via Uses This 
“I started using Dropbox recently, but because I spend nearly all my time on a single computer, I don't seem to use it much.”
John Gruber Interview, Writer (Daring Fireball) · via Uses This 
“I've also been pretty impressed recently with Dropbox for getting a file or two onto all my Macs extremely quickly.”
Steven Frank Interview, Mac developer, co-founder of Panic · via Uses This