The mythical GDrive! There has been talk of such a thing coming to Google Docs for many years. Indeed at one point Google admitted they had such a thing days away from launch before deciding that the future of document storage didn’t revolve around the legacy drive and folder structures anymore and was killed off.

Even today, there are many who claim that Google have again revived GDrive and that once again it will be with us in a matter of weeks. To be honest, your guess is as good as mine.

Which brings us to a neat service called Insync.

A small application that sits on your Windows or Mac taskbar and keeps all your Google Docs files in sync with a folder on your hard drive. It also provides access via the Insync web portal but seeing that Google Docs is web based anyway, I fail to see the benefit of this.

When a file is updated in Google Docs, it is updated in the local folder. When you double click on a local file and edit it, it is then synced back to Google Docs.

It also lets you connect multiple Google Docs accounts with each being synced to it’s own folder.

So is it any good?

Well it’s really a case of it doing what it says in the tin.

I have been running this for a few weeks now and it just works. It is dead simple to use and under normal circumstances keeps itself to itself.

Now when/if Google ever do release their own GDrive product, the Insync team are certainly going to need to find away to differentiate themselves but for now, this is a slick and simple method for keeping a local copy of Google Docs on your machine and In Sync

The service is free and can be found at www.insynchq.com