I signed up for a Dropbox account about a month ago and have steadily been more and more impressed with how well it works. Dropbox is a cloud storage service that integrates with your computer as if it were a simple folder/directory. I have been using it between the PC running XP at a client’s office, my laptop running Vista and a couple of other machines I use frequently. To date it has been seamless.

I run Planner Mode with Muse in Emacs extensivly for planning, note taking, scheduling, To Do List, writing this blog and a variety of other tasks and reports. The Planner-mode database (if you can call it that) stores all information as plain text files in a directory of your choosing so I decided to put that directory in the “My Dropbox” folder on all the machines I access.

That change has been great - I can now update all of my daily plans and the HTML output files from any machine and they are all synced automatically through “The cloud”. Nice. And since the files I am syncing are mostly small text files, the download/sync time is fast. I also keep copies of my .emacs, .bashrc and other config files that I need so they are always accessible. This is all stuff I used to do with a USB thumb drive but the trouble with that was that I would inevitably not have it when I really needed it. Of course If
I had no internet connection I’d be in trouble but I do still have my Thumb drive to cover that situation. Check out Dropbox - it’s cool.

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