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So with this I would be able to edit Google office docs directly from Dropbox / see it in my Dropbox folder? For our startup tagtog.net this is useful because
by juanmirocks 9y ago
So with this I would be able to edit Google office docs directly from Dropbox / see it in my Dropbox folder?
For our startup tagtog.net this is useful because we like having all centralized into our docker folder and so not miss important documents in other services.
- danieldk 9y agoIndeed, it will be interesting to see how this works, since on with Google Docs the documents are not actually stored on Google Drive (just a placeholder/link that opens Google Docs when you open it). I would expect that this works there same, because so far there are no Google Docs file formats. It should also be noted that Dropbox already had Office Online support for a while, which allows one to edit Office files that are stored in Dropbox in Office Online. This integration stores the actual Word/Excel/PowerPoint documents on Dropbox, so after syncing you have these files locally as well.
- sseth 9y agoGoogle apps (now GSuite) has had offline functionality for several years. You can work on Sheets, Docs etc completely offline.
- danieldk 9y agoSure, but that’s not the same as: the documents end up as regular files in a directory in a standard(ized) format, that you still can open in 10 years long after you cancel your subscription/account. One of the huge benefits of Dropbox was that everything ends up as a normal file on your hard disk, that you can archive/backup. Unfortunately, that is not really true anymore, since Dropbox Paper docs are not saved to Dropbox. You can save a copy of a Google Docs document on your drive in a Microsoft Office format, but that goes in one direction.