Crossing the home/work computer divide
The separation of home computer and work computer has caused me grief many times. Whether I’ve forgotten a birthday and the address I need to send out the card is on my home computer, or am simply sick of emailing an excel sheet back and forth with my wife to make home budget updates, there is a solution to my aggravation. Google Docs.
This free to anyone with a Google account product is an easy way to create, access, and share projects, documents and spreadsheets online. Take for instance my birthday card problem, I need an address, but don’t have access to it at home. Recently, I backed up all my addresses to a file on my Google Docs and now have access to them anywhere I can get online.
Another excellent use of the Docs feature is the spreadsheet. Even though it’s pared down, it has much of the same functionality as Excel. And taking the advice of one of my favorite blogs, Get Rich Slowly, Kirsten and I created a budget and have been keeping it updated since the first of the year. Having a shared spreadsheet template for each month allows us to access it during the day to make updates. It helps take away the, “I’ll do it later” factor that caused our previous budget attempts to fail. After being on the computer all day at work, by the time we got home, neither of us wanted to get in front of the screen again to do budget updates. With our Google Docs system, we can now take a few minutes at lunch to do it and keep us on track.
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