The Future of Documents

Making your personal documents available on the cloud does not necessarily mean making them fully editable anywhere like in GoogleDocs, Zoho Docs, or myBooo. Sometimes the goal is to be able to more easily share your content with others, like Scribd.

Docstoc, “the premier online community to find and share professional documents”, sits somewhere in between. Not just a social document service, it now provides the capability to input and output documents to a personal space, while providing a very intuitive and friendly user interface.

• myDocs is the self-proclaimed “best way to store and preview and manage your documents online”. You can upload your documents in any format to your myDocs space, and edit metadata or choose them to be private. These documents can then be organized with a traditional File Explorer metaphor and a nice UI: organized in folders, listed as thumbnails or lists, opened and previewed online in DocStoc’s propietary format.  But even more importantly, myDocs also provides you the capability to retrieve the original documents, either as a download, or by email.

  

• DocStoc Sync allows your documents to be synced automatically between your personal computer and your myDocs space.

This is a great solution for having your personal – and shared – documents accessible anywhere, if you don’t need editing capabilities. The document format is preserved, and you can retrieve it from anywhere. And you can obviously share it with others (the only downside being that it is an opt-out rather than an opt-in: all documents are shared by default).