I am not 100% committed to moving everything off of my hard drive and into the magic data cloud. I am much closer to making the move, however.
Earlier today, I was thinking about looking at the online todo/calendar options when I realized that all I really need and want is a spreadsheet that I can use wherever I am connected to the internet. I’m perfectly happy organizing it and tweaking it to fit my wants and desires.
Then, I remember that Google has a perfectly fine online spreadsheet. I have even used them for a couple of quick little projects. They also have a nice little word processor that does everything that I currently need a nice little word processor to do.
So, while I am not committing to moving everything to the data cloud, I am going to start spending a lot more time there.
Specifically, I am going to use Google’s Docs and Spreadsheets to work with my previously mentioned todo list that I need to create and any other little spreadsheets that I want. I am also going to use it to write some short stories that I want to play with and other Word type documents.
We’ll call it an experiment. I’ll see how it goes between now and the end of January and then I’ll review what went right and what went wrong.
Tags: Google, word processor, spreadsheet, data cloud
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