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<wishful thinking> How I wish I could save my docs in Dropbox and edit them later on Google Docs </wishful thinking>

It's easy, you hit "File -> Save" in the first app, then "File -> Open" in the second app....

ooooh, right, web. Sorry. That's what you get when you walk into the walled garden.

It's still convenient to have offline files be automatically imported and editable online and be able to pull latest versions offline if required. Yes, a poor man's version control for documents for the rest of us.

Walled gardens are the new proprietary file formats.

That would be cool. There is an extensive GDocs API [1] and you could probably hack something together for Dropbox [2] (till the proper API is released....).

It's a possibility.

1. http://code.google.com/apis/documents/overview.html 2. http://github.com/tvongaza/DropBox

Dropbox API is on its way according to their forums.

Keep an eye out here: http://code.google.com/p/dropbox-api/

Apparently in private beta.

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=18111&replies=12

Thanks for the head up :-) There's a promising weekend project in here for sure.

There are a whole list of gotchas and problems that immediately spring to mind but it would be fun to see it hacked up.

Given Google Docs' recent move to allow the storage of any file, I'm expecting them to come out with a Dropbox-like client that syncs to the Google Docs cloud.

If we are on this, isn't it then better to have your files in Dropbox and edit them with some native application like OpenOffice or Microsoft Office?

memeoconnect.com seems pretty close to that functionality though I haven't tried it myself

Looks promising. But, then again, the reason why I wouldn't use it is because of remembering to open another app to upload etc. Dropbox helps me stay lazy :-)

<plug>If you save your docs on humyo you can edit them in Zoho.</plug>

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