Something like Google Docs, but better??

[Gardenarian]

I have been using Google docs for quite a few years and have never been really satisfied with it. I love the idea of having all my documents in the cloud and being able to access them from anywhere, but sometimes I have trouble pulling up my documents, or the formatting is strange. I do have a flash drive (USB drive) but I prefer online documents as I can use them on any platform, and my little netbook does not have a much memory.

Does anyone know of an alternative to Google Documents? (soon to become Google Drive.)

Thanks!

[Alan]

I'm not familiar with anything that could replace Google Docs in its entireity, although with multiple cloud options out there and a copy of Microsoft Office/Open Office/etc., you could easily use the office product of your choice and save the results to a cloud based repository such as Dropbox.

[julia]

Dropbox works for me.

[Gardenarian]

Hmm - it seems like a lot of these things Skydrive, Dropbox - need you to install something on the computer. How do you access it from, say, the library? My husband uses Apple, and we can share documents with Google - I don't know if these will all be compatible (probably not MS Skydrive.)

[shadowmoss]

I use ADrive.com You can pay money and get an app for it on your desktop, or just log into it remotely when you want to save/retrieve things stored there. 50G free when I signed up. Can't log in from work anymore (not an issue with the site, an issue with a micro-managing head office here) to check that that is still the case.

[Square Peg]

With dropbox you can log on at the website and drag files in to save without downloading.