I’m always looking for more ways to be productive in my writing when I’m away from my computer. I mostly used Google Docs because so much of my online life revolves around Google services. I wanted to find an alternative to Google Docs because the mobile app is nothing more than the mobile webpage. I also wanted something that allowed me to work offline. This caused me to keep my eyes open for a productivity app that would become my first choice for writing on the go.

Google has announced the availability of Google Docs even when a user is offline. Using Google Gears, Google Docs will create a document cloud of the user’s online Google Docs accounts. This doc cloud can then be accessed by the user on the desktop and subsequently the user can edit the document and save it on the desktop again. The fun then starts the next time the user connects to the Internet, Google Docs (via Google Gears) will then sync up the documents edited offline with the documents online.