What are Google Docs when they're at home?

Useful! The most recent use I've made of a shared google document is a recipe spreadsheet, so that my partner and I can easily refer to our favourite dinner recipes, and make additions or corrections whenever we think of it. There is a column for cookbook, page, vegetarian or not, and whether other people (less enamored of The Spicy) would be able to eat it. Prior to that, we used a spreadsheet to calculate whether the car scrappage scheme made any sense for us, and allowed us to compare the costs of different vehicles and look at the same figures from different locations as we discussed it.

These are not earth-shattering feats, but it is surprising how making access simple can encourage you to update a document whereas otherwise you might never get around to it.