Google Docs
What that you say??
Yes, I sobered up from an evening of drinking at Inside Out at Causeway Bay and having a good old time eating seafood and finally ended up atKareoke at Wan Chai . We all work and live such intensely busy lives and making time to just relax is so important and ever so previous. Time and saving time to make time to just be me is hard and harder as I try to always do more, fit more and achieve more in my busy life! Candidly, evensacro-saint toilet time has been multi -tasking time thanks to my damned Blackberry. It is a device I both love and hate for the same reasons – a paradox which I will need totalk about at some stage.
Even though I was always aware of Google Docs, I still liked the old fashioned way of swapping files via a memory card. So didn’t really have a need to upload my personal documents online so some one else can also edit and contribute to what is in it until recently.
Collaborating via the “Share Doc” function of google Docs is not new, I am sure.
But this week-end as I pondered what I has achieved over the last exciting but nevertheless draining 9 months with my Financial advisor, I realised that we could review the progress in terms of my own personal goals and how that affects my financial well being using the Share Function of Google docs.
I am sure that is what it was meant for and sure enough it is used by many and yet until I started looking at a fast, seamless way in which to access and share information without having to email documents or even put documents on a flash drive and cart it around. I would not have immediately made the mental connection and thought of checking outGoogle Docs. It dawned on me once more why this facility is so handy and as such could not but feel thankful that Google Docs and sharing information was there to make my life easier, perhaps buy me an extra 5 minutes. 5 minutes when added up over several months could literally equate into hours.
So yes Could computing and storing information in cyberspace makes my crazy life just a little bit easier. Being able to share information with my Financial Advisor and or other professional consultants who manage my personal life is really cool. It is all about saving time which is frustratingly so scarce to the point where I sometimes feel like that rat running that silly race.
How many folks have had their lives made easier, more fun and freer due to pervasive, hardware free computing? I’d like to know!
Cheers,
Dan
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