Good morning:

It isn't an outliner, nor is it a program for knowledge management, but I wanted to tell the group about a new program that I have been using for the last week or so. It is called Cloud Commander, and it allows you to manage all of your cloud drives in one place. It is similar to Otixo and Primadesk, but it doesn't have the monthly subscription charges. You can find it here: http://www.cloud-cdr.com/ Mac only unfortunately. It will connect to your Box, Dropbox, Onedrive, iCloud, Copy and other accounts, and make them accessible in one place. You can open a window in Box, open a second window in Onedrive, and copy files back and forth. It works great for me. I don't have any of my cloud accounts set up to sync folders on my computer. I have a NAS at home that I use for backup, and a couple of drives at work that allow me to either sync or backup. I have several different cloud accounts. The university at which I work provides everyone with 50 gig of storage through Box. I have a personal Box account with another 25 gig that I got through a one time offer. Onedrive has 25 gig and Copy has 15. Dropbox is my smallest cloud account with 2.5 gig. Using Cloud Commander I can move files back and forth to my computer and then move them across the different accounts to take advantage of whichever one has the most space. It has made the cloud much more useful to me. I find it to be well worth the $5.00 that I paid for it. Again, unfortunately, it is only available for Macs. You can also get a version for iOS, but I haven't been using my cloud accounts much on my iPad. There is a free version on the App Store for Onedrive, but I haven't used that one.
Jim

Interesting concept, thank you for the tip. The site mentions nothing about encryption and privacy -- or if the data goes through their servers. Perhaps its in the tutorial video.

There is a similar solution available for several platforms: it is called StorageMadeEasy (formerly SME Storage, where SME = Small Medium Enterprise). The one-off personal license is much more expensive than Cloud Commander at USD 60 http://storagemadeeasy.com/pricing/

SME does offer some additional features, including a permanent online account for accessing all cloud services from a single location, as well as WebDav and FTP access for cloud storage services that don't provide it natively (or provide it for a monthly fee). I have found the latter to be most useful; in fact, I rarely use the native client nowadays. What I do is to set up FTP access for specific services and then have various project files automatically backed up there.

Another solution which I had forgotten: Cloudberry Labs http://www.cloudberrylab.com/ offers several products and services to manage cloud storage. Cloudberry Backup may be the closest to Cloud Commander, while Cloudberry Drive allows one to map cloud storage to a drive letter and use it as if it were local storage.

Good question about the encryption. Since I don't store any sensitive material in the cloud, it has been of less interest to me. I mostly use cloud storage for transfers of material that are already public such as pdfs from scientific journals. I have emailed the Cloud Commander folks, and will let people know what the response is.

Jim

Reply from the support people at Cloud Commander:

All connections to the cloud services use HTTPS (SSL). Non-cloud services like FTP are either unencrypted or use their own encryption (like SFTP and FTPS).

So there you are-the transfers are encrypted with HTTPS.

Thank you for pursuing that, and the update. So it seems that the the data are encrypted (weak method) in movement but not at rest.

FYI Cloudberry Backup is now on sale at Bits du Jour:
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/cloudberry-backup