"...you'll be able to do full editing of docs while you are offline and when you comeback online it will sync up and resolve all the conflicts." {link: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/applications/offline-google-docs-arriving-in-coming-weeks-1082586 source}
+{subsection: Backups}
+
+To reduce our dependency on Google, we can keep local, exported copies as a backup. Google drive can export docx, odt, rtf, pdf, txt, and html.
+
+We can manually make backups. You can export documents individually using File > Download as. You can download a batch in a zip file. {link: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/10/export-google-docs.html It looks like this},
+although the menu option is now "Download" not "Export":
+
+We can automate the backups using the Google Drive API. It would probably involve {link: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/list enumerating the files} then {link: https://developers.google.com/drive/manage-downloads exporting them}
+
{subsection: Google Drive Desktop}
Google Drive Desktop nearly useless for our purposes. For native Google Drive formats, the "file" that ends up on disk is just a link to the web site.
