[Ashcroft]

Here's a suggestion for a strategy that may satisfy a large number of costumers for the short term and give OG more time (in terms of customer patience) to tackle the bigger problems that's been hindering them from introducing any automatic syncing (via Dropbox, iCloud, you name it...) at all - for such a painfully long time.

OG could introduce a new "slim" file format for OO with a limited feature set that's rather easy to sync. Extended features (images, audio notes etc.) could stay reserved to the current OO3 file format for which syncing will be introduced later. Think of something like .RTF and .RTFD! Or plain .HTML and .WEBARCHIVE!

So what if this new file format would only feature the most commonly used text attributes such as font-family, color, size, bold, italics, underline and strikethrough? Plus: colors for backgrounds, multiple columns, checkboxes and folding-states, of course. Basically, it could be something like OPML with text attributes.

I think this could make a *huge* number of people very happy. Whaddayasay?