When I saw my Docs start syncing in, I thought it meant I would be able to work on them offline. I was also disappointed, but I'm sure this functionality will roll out down the road.

You can enable offline access in Google Docs. Backup's the issue for me, though.

How do you enable offline use? I have been looking for this for a while. I am using google apps if that matters.

I was disappointed too. It's a glorified bookmark manager. I'd have thought it would at least give me csv and rtf locally or an XML format.

However it is now easier to move your files in appropriate collections and remove the unwanted files compared to the webinterface.

There is an option to enable accessing your files offline.