These services are all free to sign up for and use, but offer more storage or facilities if you want to pay for them (but you don't need to!)
Dropbox offers free bonus space (up to 16GB) if you perform some tasks to encourage your use, or refer friends to use the service as well
(which is why there are fancy links here to get me a bonus if you sign up :-) ).
Dropbox is widely used and simple to setup - put any writing files or ideas in your Dropbox folder and a copy will be stored on the internet.
You can install Dropbox on more than one PC and the files will be synchronised up and down between them.
Dropbox will still have a copy of your file (which you can download via the web) even if your PC breaks or is stolen!
It's rather like using a USB drive but you always have it and files are synchrovnised automatically
(so huge files or numbers may take some time to synchronise depending on the speed of your internet link)
Evernote is similar in someways, but rather than being a general file backup and synchronise it is focused on saving notes.
It works well on smartphones and saves not only text but also photos and sound recordings.
It has features for tagging and searching your notes - for example for that story idea you had last week, or just a shopping list ...
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