Hot on the heels of Zoho Share comes Zoho Docs, which aggregates your Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, and Zoho Show documents into a single repository.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because Zoho Share does more or less the same thing — and so does Google Docs. Previously, if you wanted to open, say, a Zoho Writer document or Zoho Show presentation, you had to run the corresponding Web app, then load the desired file. This way you get to see all your documents, from all your apps, in one place.
Of course, you can also create, edit, share, and collaborate on files from within the Zoho Docs interface, which supports hierarchical folders, drag-and-drop file management, right-click context menus, and file tagging.
So what’s the real difference between Zoho Docs and Zoho Share? There’s definitely some overlap, though the former is all about personal document management, while the latter is intended more for sharing files publicly a la Docstoc and Scribd.
I’m glad to see Zoho finally catching up to Google Docs in this area, but I have one quibble with the Zoho Docs interface: You have to click on a document’s icon to open it for editing — and “edit” isn’t one of the options in the right-click menu. This is no big deal once you figure it out, but it was definitely confusing at first.
