March 13, 2022
I want to have a very nice file management system. I’m realizing now how powerful and helpful iCloud can be for this.
There’s 4 main categories. Pictures, Videos, Audio and Writing.
For writing, I’d like it so that I can access the documents from any device very easily.
Up until now I’ve been doing all my writing in Google Docs. That app would be great if I was using a Pixel Phone, or any other Google phone, but since I have an iPhone, it might make more sense to be using Pages. The downside of Google Docs is that I need to be connected to the internet to start writing a document there. Pages might be better because I can start a document on my Mac, have it automatically save to iCloud, allowing me to add more to that document right from my iPhone.
Once the document is finished, its permanently stored in iCloud. I can’t change the name of the pages folder, but for now that will be where all my writing is stored. Inside the pages folder I can have everything sorted by date. It seems like it could be a really nice way to store things. Everything is always backed up to the cloud, so losing or breaking my computer or phone won’t mean I lose anything. The writing also starts on the device, which I like, because it means I don’t need to be connected to the internet to begin a document. I can start writing on a bus or cafe, and as soon as my computers connects to wi-fi, the document will automatically upload to iCloud It’s really cool, and I love the feeling I get. It’s the really nice feeling of knowing things are safe. I guess there’s always the possibility of being hacked, which is why I still think it’s important to have everything saved to hard drives, just in case. This can something I do like every 3 months or something like that, where I download all the new stuff from the last 3 months from iCloud and copy it all over to 2 or more external drives.
I just downloaded Pages for my iPhone and it works quite nicely. I can edit a document I started on my Mac and vice versa. I can also access older documents because they’re all grouped together in iCloud and accessible right from the Pages app. I don’t need to leave Pages and go to Drive to access them.
Ok so that’s writing. Then there’s photos. I think that the Photos app can come in handy, but only to an extent. I think it might be helpful for photos taken with the iPhone.