Your productivity at the grinds to a halt when the PowerPoint presentation you need is stuck on your PC at the office. Or, when you need to make an urgent call while out at lunch, you learn the hard way that a client's phone number on your laptop at home hasn't yet synced with the smartphone in your hand.

No perfect, seamless solution exists yet, but you can automate syncing across platforms as much as possible and avoid many of these annoying scenarios.

Keeping these kinds of data synced between any two devices is usually not too difficult. Smartphones and tablets generally have a USB cable of some sort that connects them with a PC to sync data. The problem is to keep things up to date when you're away from the computer. Consider these approaches.

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