Linking Up – Can Google Do It?

There is something I’d really like to do and I’m not sure if there is some way to do this or not so… I’m appealing to you all.

Now, here is my question to all you Google-loving lurkers on my blog:

Is there any way (plugin / method / tool / etc…) to open a document on my computer (operating system independent) by automatically uploading to my Google docs account and opening it there?

Short of that method, is there any way to sync my desktop docs with my Google docs easily?

I really prefer to keep all my docs in one place, so having some functionality to always have my docs in my Google Documents would be nice.

Please chime in if you have ideas!

~Nicole