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A senior consultant who spends a lot of times on airplanes mentioned to me that he always tells the office staff to send him an attachment, not a Quickr link. Why? It turns out that he manages his email mostly on his Blackberry, saving the attachments to be read/edited while on the airplane.. Before boarding for a long flight he replicates his Notes mail down to his laptop, then works on the items on the flight. If he finds a Quickr link instead of an attachment he's stuck.

Quickr has an offline mode which I've never had much success implementing, but it wouldn't solve this guy's problem except by accident. He can anticipate what documents he plans to work with while disconnected and download copies. But a the link in an e-mail may be to any of dozens or hundreds of places. He's unlikely to have synchronized the right one to his laptop -- and to have done it recently enough to be sure he's looking at the current version of the document.

Within a year or two this problem will go away with the advent of "Internet everywhere". In the meantime, I'm not sure we have another solution for him.

I won't be at Lotusphere so let me know if any new ideas to help this guy (did I mention he's a managing partner?) surface.