Continuing the gratitude-palooza.
I wanted to access a document yesterday for update and reuse. The only problem was that I had no idea where the document was. Within my iPad document editor (I use Office2 HD) I flipped between local files, files on my Google Drive, and files in my Dropbox. While I was frustrated by my essential lack of organizational skills, I felt a wave of thankfulness, realizing that only three or four years ago these files would have been scattered not over applications, but over several machines, cd's, and thumb drives all over Southern California.
Virtually everything I have created, documents, photos, videos, or presentations now exist not primarily on local drives, but on cloud drives and cloud services. This has two clear advantages. First, obviously, I can access documents any time I have Internet access (which is only a Starbucks away). I no longer have to worry about getting to a site and not having what I need. Second, it is much simpler to share a link than emailing a document or (gasp) passing out paper.
Not too much more on this, just a layer to reality that makes my life a lot better.
As always, I welcome you comments
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