clock … watching time, the only true currency

I need to do some work to figure out the best way to use two computers in the house effectively. The problem is most applications, and their data stores, are designed with single-computer use in mind. I have server-based storage spage, but it’s not the easiest thing to manage documents/data on the server at all times, especially when one of the computers is a laptop which is not 100% connected all the time. Makes you think sync is more and more important. I’m not going to solve these problems this month, but I’m eager for pointers to helpful sites on this extended topic.