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Google drive has had this feature for a while. Your Google docs are essentially shortcuts to the cloud. Im glad Dropbox is releasing this, I think it's very us
by xivzgrev 11y ago
Google drive has had this feature for a while. Your Google docs are essentially shortcuts to the cloud.
Im glad Dropbox is releasing this, I think it's very useful, but man is it trumped up. They have officially crossed chasm into the mainstream, when there is more marketing hype than technological innovation in a new release.
- gcr 11y agoGoogle Drive only 'shortcutizes' actual Google docs, which can't be edited offline anyway. If you put a PDF or a large media file (or anything that takes up space anyway) into Google Drive, you don't get a placeholder, you get your entire video collection. I consider Dropbox's feature a huge improvement over that.
- bartvk 11y agoActually, some Google Docs can be edited offline. I once tried to figure out what is possible and what isn't. Basically, you can edit Docs and Slides offline in Chrome. Drawings and Sheets can only be viewed, not edited offline. This is 2013 information though, some things may have changed for the better.