Cloud storage approach... my recommendations?
One of my Nozbe users asked me the other day this question:
I am a huge Nozbe fan, glad to be using it again and I really appreciate what you've done to make it an awesome tool.Question: what approach (if any) have you taken to create a cloud-based storage approach for your documents and reference materials, where you have access no matter where you are? I am currently testing a blend of Evernote, Dropbox, Windows Live/SkyDrive and a couple of others in a hodgepodge that is not working the way it needs to ... seamless.SO, any recommendations?
Here's what I responded to him:
Hello Steve and thanks for your kind message!I actually use a blend of Evernote and Dropbox - I use Evernote for all notes (and try to produce as few "documents" as possible and use notes in Evernote instead) as they sync with Nozbe.. and I use Dropbox for the rest of my files and as Dropbox will sync with Nozbe in a few weeks, this will make it even better :-)Once I'm done with a document in Dropbox and I no longer need it, I upload it to Nozbe to the appropriate project, so I don't keep the documents on my computer locally when I'm not actively working on them. (but I have them in Nozbe, so they never get lost)Hope it helps,- Michael
To sum up - this is my basic flow:
- I try to produce as few files as possible, I use Evernote and produce mainly notes
- When I do use files, I put them in Dropbox and keep them there
- When I'm done with these files (projects completed) I either move them to a "completed" directory in Dropbox or upload them to Nozbe to appropriate project
That's it. Evernote syncs with Nozbe and Dropbox will sync with Nozbe soon, too. So it's a great approach which not only gives me a cloud-based storage but also project-relevant access to my files and notes.
How do you handle cloud storage?
I'm Michael Sliwinski and I'm an entrepreneur who's also the...
.. Founder of Nozbe.com - a time and project management web application
.. Editor of Productive! Magazine - a global PDF publication on productivity
.. and a blogger as well as a producer of a weekly 2-minute Productive! show.
.. Founder of Nozbe.com - a time and project management web application
.. Editor of Productive! Magazine - a global PDF publication on productivity
.. and a blogger as well as a producer of a weekly 2-minute Productive! show.
4 comments
Feb 21, 2011
Juan Ros said...
Great news that Nozbe will soon sync with Dropbox! Another reason why Nozbe is the best app available for getting things done!
Feb 21, 2011
Mickey said...
My solution is quite similar (Evernote and Dropbox), but I don't worry about the space being consumed in Dropbox -- I just keep it well-organized. I've got about 30GB in there, but that's not a big deal. Even on my netbook, 30GB isn't that much to worry about, considering that it houses ALL of my files.
Feb 21, 2011
Michael Sliwinski said...
I just try to generate as few files as possible so that I can put most of my stuff as a note to Evernote or to Nozbe so that everything I do is project-related and when done, archived. Juan, yes, Dropbox sync is coming very soon. Mickey, it's true that 30G is not that much, I just don't want to organize my files anymore now :-)
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