TinyLittleOffice, where the link is the document
Don't need a full-fat productivity suite and worried about where your documents are being stored? Welcome to TinyLittleOffice, a set of applications where the document is the link itself. Using a URL to stash information isn't new. Look at many URLs, and you'll see a lengthy sequence of seemingly random characters at the end. Using that space to stash data isn't novel, but using it for documents is an interesting approach. TinyLittleOffice comprises a selection of tools, including a basic word processor, presentation builder, spreadsheet, calendar, and a drawing tool. The theory is a simple one: create a document and get a link. The link is the document. The document isn't saved on a server or made into an attachment (although it is possible to export to a variety of formats), so it is, in theory, private. That is, unless you're worried about what the server is doing when it opens the link. …
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