Paperpile: web- and Chrome-based academic writing and referencing system

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 4, 2013 at 09:40 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
I also wondered about being so dependent on the web. I think the
>resolution is with the use of the Google ecosystem. Anything in Google
>Drive can live on your computer if you have downloaded the Google Drive
>software. Google Drive syncs well with its web-based version.

I’ve installed Google Drive Sync today, thinking I would be able to use my Google spreadsheets offline, and then sync them with the server later. But it doesn’t seem to work the way I thought it would. I wasn’t able to use the already open Google spreadsheets in offline mode, and when I clicked on a .gsheet file in my drive, it would just launch a new browser and tell me I didn’t have internet connection.

When I tried to right-click on the file in Dopus to see if I could open it in Excel, it did nothing other than crashing Dopus every time. As the Drive Sync app kept trying to connect to the Internet, it slowed down my reasonably powerful PC to the extent that I had to switch the sync app off, otherwise I wasn’t able to dictate with Dragon NS.

So if you can’t use Google’s own .gsheet and .gdoc files offline, then this thing just becomes a poor man’s Dropbox. With that effort I could just as well be using an Excel sheet in Dropbox…

Or am I missing something?