How do I automatically synchronize Google Docs with Dropbox?

How do I automatically synchronize Google Docs with Dropbox? I would like to be able to edit one of my Google Docs on another computer, save it online (not download it to that computer and upload it to Dropbox), and then be able to go back to my home computer and have the file already synced to my computer.
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bert [Entry]

Your answer I think is with Syncplicity

bert [Entry]

Probably, but not with Dropbox. Dropbox exists for local syncing, GDocs exists entirely in the cloud. You'd want a dedicated application for that, but I don't know if such a thing exists. If it has a good API, though, it shouldn't be too hard to hack together.

bert [Entry]

May be you can use Google Gears on both computers and tweak it to save files to your Dropbox folder, but this would be a total hack and there are very few chances it might work.

bert [Entry]

See this Dropbox getsatisfaction feature request and vote for it if you want it.

bert [Entry]

"Right now I know of 4 options:

CloudHQ is expensive, but does it very well.
Some desktop apps do the trick (such as Insync, by far the best option I know of).
Zapier, IFTTT and cloudwork only go so far - they sync new files, don't keep synced after they change.
Manually downloading files as PDF (or DOCX, XLSX, etc) might still be the simplest free reliable option.

Unfortunately I could find no Google Docs Connected App that do the trick, and dropbox have no app market, just their API, to which nobody found a way to do it properly, other than cloudHQ, as far as I know.

A good option to using freaking MS DOC format is going with http://stackedit.io or something similar such as the awesome penflip. But there's nothing as easy to collaborate with than Google Docs, with other non-tech-savy people.

I don't think there's any free way to automatically sync docs and dropbox without a machine."