DeskNow lets you store all your documents (and all kinds of files, generally) in your account. In this way you can access them from any location, and you can share them with other users.
Being able to access your files from any location means that you don't need to carry disks with you wherever you go, and that you don't need to copy all your documents to your PDA in advance. You will just access what you need directly when you need it.
Sharing documents with your colleagues is a far more efficient collaboration method than sending email attachments to everyone, because when using email documents can end up out of sync, some people might miss or simply not want a particular document, and so on. In addition, having a central place of storage helps keeping track of all the information for a particular project, rather than scattering it in the mailboxes of many people.
In your DeskNow account you will find a 'Files' folder. This folder can contain files, or other folders, pretty much in the same way of any normal operating system. The files contained in your account are called 'DeskNow files', and are stored inside the DeskNow server, whereas we will refer to the files stored on your computer as 'local' files.
File management in DeskNow has many advanced features that makes it even more useful:
your file folders are fully integrated with the other DeskNow functionalities. For instance you can send your DeskNow files as email attachments, or save email attachments directly to your DeskNow folder
you can share file folders with other users, setting access permissions (read, write, etc), passwords, and so on
when sharing files, you can 'lock' a document that you are working on, so that other users will be prevented from changing it
you can access your files from a PC browser and from a PocketPC device
you can access your DeskNow files directly from your desktop, as a normal network drive. This is very useful because you can operate on your DeskNow files pretty much in the same way as local files (ex: double click on a file to open it, copy and move files with simple drag&drop mouse operations, etc)
you can easily publish some of your DeskNow files on the web, and make them accessible to non-DeskNow users