Google Docs
November 5, 2007
I tried Google Docs way back when it was still Writely but had to abandon it when added features made it inaccessible on my old computer. This fall, after enrolling in a first year university French course, I decided to give Google Docs another try. The workflow turned out to be surprisingly simple and effective:
- Online storage gave me access to the documents at the college or at home
- Export as Word allowed me to email it to the professor in the format he preferred
- Google Docs can spell check in French without the rest of the page (or my whole computer) having to be in French
- Stored revisions make it easy to go back to previous versions of the document if I change my mind
