As I started storing more and more of my data in the cloud, I really missed the ability to find and launch those documents using Google Desktop the way I would local files; it's hard to beat being only a handful of keystrokes from any document, and I didn't want to have to trade that for the convenience of accessing my documents anywhere and sharing them easily.
That's where Precipitate—my first contribution to the Google Mac Developer Playground—comes in. Precipitate is a little app for OS X that automatically creates proxy files for things stored in Google services (Docs and Bookmarks so far) that are indexed by Spotlight and will jump right to the document in your browser when they are opened, so that cloud data is as easy to find and launch as local files. In short: “Tastes great—and just look at that shine!”
Category: Geek
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