Needing Advice: A Place to Store Word/Pages Documents
My sweetie is not too fond of the idea of me creating and storing Pages docs (the Mac version of Word) on her laptop, now our only computer; she's worried about it filling up etc. (I love that woman, oh how I do, but....ever seen the scene in the movie The Kids Are Alright re: "micromanaging"? That's pretty much us.)
So I'd like to have a place where I can create, edit and store documents online and store them there, now that I've just filled up another notebook with fic drafts and meta notes; something along the lines of Photobucket, but for documents rather than photos.
FYI: the simpler the better. I've heard of iCloud and still have no idea what it is (despite <lj user=comlodge>'s careful explanation of it); I'm pretty computer savvy in some ways but most of y'all are way ahead of me in a lot of other areas. Thanks muchly!
So I'd like to have a place where I can create, edit and store documents online and store them there, now that I've just filled up another notebook with fic drafts and meta notes; something along the lines of Photobucket, but for documents rather than photos.
FYI: the simpler the better. I've heard of iCloud and still have no idea what it is (despite <lj user=comlodge>'s careful explanation of it); I'm pretty computer savvy in some ways but most of y'all are way ahead of me in a lot of other areas. Thanks muchly!
Why don't you just get an external drive and save everything there? It won't impact on the laptop as you just unplug it! And the bonus is that if you get another computer there will be no having to move stuff around.
Maybe I need to google this or call the apple store?
Gabrielle
Edited at 2013-10-06 09:04 pm (UTC)
If you want to preserve the formatting for the app you're used to composing in, I'd say Dropbox. That's also free.
With either Google Drive or Dropbox, you can retrieve your documents from any computer, work on them, and save them back to your online storage space. No carrying around disks or flash drives!
ETA: Reading through the other comments prompts me to add: tangible storage like external drives, thumb drives or CDs are okay, but I'd caution against only using physical storage. Too easy to lose them or have them destroyed.
If you like multiple backups (and are organized enough to keep track of which version of each document is backed up where), why not do all three: an inexpensive thumb drive you can keep on your keychain, plus Dropbox, plus Google Drive?
That way, even if the disaster genii strikes two of your storage spaces in the same week, you'd still have a third.
Edited at 2013-10-06 09:10 pm (UTC)
Oh absolutely. thumb drives remind me of floppies in how delicate they are - I've had one I barely used just stop functioning one day. I use them to temporarily transfer information but not for storage.
and are organized enough to keep track of which version of each document is backed up where
Hah I wish I were. but I do like having things in multiple places; keeping track of which is where is probably wishful thinking for me with my brain the way it is. The fire taught and re-taught me a few hard lessons. It's like exercise, you have to keep from getting lazy and letting it slide.
Back when I was collaborating on a WIP in the Moulin Rouge category with a friend on ff.net we used to email back and forth and man, was it a mess - but neither one of us was very organized. Two writers with ADD = a thousand docs between us and not a lot getting done.