For the last couple of years I have used Google drive exclusively for all new documents and am finding it works pretty well. I use a simple folder structure which makes it a bit easier when you want to browse docs, though the search obviously works really well.
root - random docs, works in progress, other
|-- AI—AI notes, research papers, ebooks
|-- dev - used as a dumping ground for code when transferring between PCs (my master dev folder lives on the PC)
|-- study -course notes, lectures
The best part is that I can access them from home, work or on the road (android app works very well), so backups and syncing is not an issue.
For files on the home PC I use a NAS which is pretty amazing, and allows access from any home PC or tablet/phone via a mapped drive. The folder structure there is:
|-- photos—all pictures, photos, videos,
|-- dev—master location for all source code
|-- docs—master location for all documents older than 2 years (rest is on google drive)
|-- info—with lots of subfolders, any downloaded ebook, webpage, dataset that I didn’t create
I don’t use the clients but I am annoyed there isn’t a simple way to download all google docs to the computer in RTF/Word or even text format—you can do full backups , but it they only work with Google drive. I don’t think Google will go out of business any day soon, so it is not an imminent risk at this stage.
For the last couple of years I have used Google drive exclusively for all new documents and am finding it works pretty well.
I use a simple folder structure which makes it a bit easier when you want to browse docs, though the search obviously works really well. root - random docs, works in progress, other |-- AI—AI notes, research papers, ebooks
|-- business—books, invoices, marketing notes, plans
|-- dev - used as a dumping ground for code when transferring between PCs (my master dev folder lives on the PC)
|-- study -course notes, lectures
The best part is that I can access them from home, work or on the road (android app works very well), so backups and syncing is not an issue.
For files on the home PC I use a NAS which is pretty amazing, and allows access from any home PC or tablet/phone via a mapped drive. The folder structure there is:
|-- photos—all pictures, photos, videos,
|-- dev—master location for all source code
|-- docs—master location for all documents older than 2 years (rest is on google drive)
|-- info—with lots of subfolders, any downloaded ebook, webpage, dataset that I didn’t create
I don’t use the clients but I am annoyed there isn’t a simple way to download all google docs to the computer in RTF/Word or even text format—you can do full backups , but it they only work with Google drive. I don’t think Google will go out of business any day soon, so it is not an imminent risk at this stage.
The main risk is not Google as a whole going out of business, but rather, withdrawing their support from the particular service you prefer.