Drop it in the box, yo.

Yes. This.

Dropbox. A nice marriage of your local hard drives and the cloud -- as polygamous as you want it to be. In other words, anything saved in Dropbox on your computer is saved on your hard drive. It's also saved online at Dropbox's servers. It's also saved on any other computer on which you've installed and linked Dropbox. I did this Friday, installing on and linking my laptop, work PC, and iPad. When you alter a document at one computer, the same document is updated in all of your Dropboxes (or when that computer is next connected to the internet). As long as you have that internet connection, you no longer have to email files to yourself or use thumb drives to carry files between machines.

But Not This.

Haven't yet figured out how to efficiently blend my use of Dropbox and DocsToGo on the iPad to edit texts I'm writing. It seems to involve always saving a new version, which doesn't save in Dropbox. Exactly the kind of extra steps I'm trying to avoid.

Mayor of Nerdville

Uh, Dropbox again. I spent an hour or more Friday moving folders and files into Dropbox. I had my laptop at work, set up on the table behind me. I'd move something on my work PC into DB, then turn around and watch the change happen on my laptop. Ha! Then I moved a bunch of stuff on my laptop into DB. I managed to clear my desktop of all but three icons: Chrome, Dropbox, and Recycle Bin. It was like Inbox Zero, only Desktop Zero. (Okay, Desktop Three.)

Shhh, Don't Tell...

...but you know that time in the morning, when you doze in and out and have really vivid dreams? That time when it would be great to be dreaming about...oh, I don't know...say, your literary crush or TV boyfriend? At that time this morning, what was I dreaming about? Jamie Fraser? Jon Hamm? Er, no. I was dreaming about Dropbox. IT'S THAT COOL.

Question of the Day

If you wrote a rap today, what would be the refrain?