As you can tell by my last post I’ve suffered a bit of a dilemma relying to heavily on locally stored data. Sure backing up would help, but that’s one side of the story, sometimes you need more than a huge clunky usb harddrive to retrieve lost data quickly.
I use 2 solutions, google docs and evernote. Google docs is alot more powerful as an Office suite though for me evernote is alot easier to deal with and it just saved me huge amounst of time with it’s online synced account storing data added through the desktop app. It also helps having an browser add-on to quickly grab snippets from the web. Only problem I have is my paranoia with the reliability of giving away your data and needing a web connection to access it. Have a look at what the 2 solutions have to offer.
Google Docs
Create and share your work online
Upload from and save to your desktop Edit anytime, from anywhere Pick who can access your documents Share changes in real time Files are stored securely online
Evernote
On the web
Create, clip, and share notes on the web and see them everywhere
On your phone
Take snapshots, read to-do lists, record audio whenever and wherever you like
On your desktop
Search through all your notes, even find text within images, whether online or off
Evernote have posted a tutorial on exporting your notes from google notebook which is no longer being developed by google. You can also email notes to your evernote account using a special address generated in your account. Nice one.
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