A task list on Skydrive or Dropbox is a good example.  It could be a convenient way of getting content into your IQ database at times when you don't have your computer running IQ available.  You could make a note on your phone that would go into a Dropbox folder, Dropbox would sync it to your computer that's running IQ, and IQ would see this and create a synchronized item in the IQ database.  Similarly, edits to an item would get synced to the IQ database too.  Deletes might be handled differently.  You could instruct IQ to keep the item in the IQ database even though the file gets deleted in the Dropbox folder.

 

Another possibility, which would be more difficult.  Suppose you have another program which puts out data in CSV file format.  Perhaps IQ could be made to sync with that CSV file, so that each line in the CSV file would be a separate record in IQ.

 

Such synchronization capabilities could eliminate the need to import data into IQ - it could be kept in its original location and manipulated there.  I realize that IQ already has the ability to sync with external databases - something I need to learn how to do.

 

Here's another example.  Say you want to track your time, or be able to recall websites you have visited.  You could sync IQ with a browser history database.  You could then use IQ to assign fields and values to the websites you've visited.

 

These of course would be pretty ambitious usages of a synchronization capability but it would at least be able to  have the ability to put notes into a dropbox folder and have them synced into an IQ database.