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Learning to Love Google Docs

April 1st, 2008 (6:00am) Aliza Sherman 13 Comments

Google DocsOh, Google Docs, how I’ve wanted to love you. Sometimes, I can be at the “cutting-edge” of technology and new Web apps, but at other times, I’m practically a Luddite.

I’ve been a fan of Gmail for so long but have avoided the Docs feature for almost as long because I just wasn’t getting it. Why did I need to upload my documents, I wondered, when I could easily email them to my clients or team members. What was the big deal?

Beause I’m not one to “read the manual,” when I finally started using Google Docs in the middle of last year, I didn’t take advantage or even know what it could do. Even today, as I find myself using it daily, I’m still finding features I never knew existed so it is like falling in love all over again with each discovery. Here’s is the evolution of my slowly evolving love of GD.

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