Pile On The Writely Files

Writely (www.writely.com) is a recently relaunched Web-based word processor from Google that rivals Word in its functionality.

Ordinarily, Writely only lets you upload one Word or image file from your PC at a time into the service, but there’s a way around this. After signing into Writely, click the E-mail In button. Here you’ll get a unique email address for your Writely account.

You can send single or multiple documents (up to 500KB) or images (up to 2MB) to this address and Writely will convert them to separate HTML documents. These uploaded files will retain their original file names. Also, any text you include in the email will become a new document that uses the email subject as its file name. All of these attachments will show up in your All Documents folder.

As of this writing, Writely had limited ability to download files to your PC in batches. You can download batches of files, however, if you don’t mind Writely converting them to HTML. Go to the All Documents tab, check the files you want to download, click the Actions dropdown menu and Save As HTML, and your files should download to your PC as a compressed Zip folder.