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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>
by samratjp 17y ago
<wishful thinking> How I wish I could save my docs in Dropbox and edit them later on Google Docs </wishful thinking>
- jbert 17y ago<plug>If you save your docs on humyo you can edit them in Zoho.</plug>
- ErrantX 17y agoThat 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 http://code.google.com/apis/documents/overview.html 2. http://github.com/tvongaza/DropBox http://github.com/tvongaza/DropBox
- niravs 17y agoDropbox API is on its way according to their forums. Keep an eye out here: http://code.google.com/p/dropbox-api/ http://code.google.com/p/dropbox-api/
- JesseAldridge 17y agoApparently in private beta. http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=18111&replies=12 http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=18111&replies=12
- samratjp 17y agoThanks for the head up :-) There's a promising weekend project in here for sure.
- ErrantX 17y agoThere are a whole list of gotchas and problems that immediately spring to mind but it would be fun to see it hacked up.
- chengas123 17y agomemeoconnect.com seems pretty close to that functionality though I haven't tried it myself
- samratjp 17y agoLooks 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 :-)
- jerf 17y agoIt'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.
- kylec 17y agoGiven 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.
- greyman 17y agoIf 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?