Regular readers of the blog here know we are big fans of Docstoc. We wrote a review of it a while back on how it is a great resource for thouse looking for almost any type of professional document template you can imagine. As I stated in that previous post, you can find anything from NDA’s to proposal templates and so on.
I was totally excited to see a couple of new features they realeased the other day when I came across a Techcrunch post on the new services. Basically theya re offering two new features that should be sure to make you head over and take a look, MyDocs and Sync. MyDocs is a great way to keep your documents safe online. They don’t offer online editing, but that shouldnt make you shy away. What it does offer you is a great place to keep those documents safe and in one place with a lot of features for you to utilize.
Docstoc MyDocs is the fastest and friendliest way to store, preview and manage your documents – there’s virtually no load time to preview your documents because MyDocs is tailored specifically for documents. With several different options for viewing your documents, it’s never been easier to organize and view your documents. Since all your documents are stored online with MyDocs, you can access them from anywhere with an Internet connection.
Here is a quick video overview of MyDocs
The other service that I am really more excited about is Sync. This is a really cool feature that
automatically syncs documents from your computer to Docstoc MyDocs. Effortlessly upload your documents and keep them private for easy access anytime, anywhere. Or publish any document or folder of documents publicly on Docstoc by putting it in your “Docstoc Public Documents” folder from your desktop.
Here is why I like this. I am a huge Google Docs user but like many I do have a twinge of fear that all my data is up in the cloud … Don’t get me wrong, I love the ability to access and edit my documents from anywhere but I still like the security of having a copy of my own. That has always been the onw drawback I have found with Google Docs. They really offer no ability to work outside their framework and better yet offer me no ability to bulk download all my documents so I can have a copy. I can do it one by one, but come on who has time for that …. With the Docstoc sync application, I can have ownership of those documents and work on the locally always knowing that the changes are being backed up to MyDcocs space on Docstoc. Here is another video of overview of the Sync feature
I am totally gonna head over and give these a go. I think this takes Docstoc to the next level and if they can get online editing that would sync the documents both ways along with their embeddding features I think they will give Google a serious run for their money in this space.
Check it out and let us know what you think.
