Best Apps for I Pad 2 for storing documents

What are the best apps for storing and organizing documents.  Is Pages necessary for casual use?

DropBox seems pretty good - it allows folders and is properly integrated with Finder so its easy to use on the desktop.  You can put most any type of file in the DropBox folders unlike iCloud where it seems you are given three folders only to use (Keynote, Pages and Numbers).  You don't seem to be able to create folders on the desktop in iCloud (using a browser) but you can create folders on the iPad by dropping one file ontop of another.
DropBox allows you to organise files and folders any way you want with different kinds of files in the same folder.  iCloud (at the moment) seems to give you only three folders (one for each iWork app) which is not really how one would organise things in real life.
Some usability issues with DropBox include:
When you click on a file on the iPad/iPhone DropBox loads the document and displays it on the right - this takes a good few seconds.
In order to open the document in the correct APP (e.g. Pages, Keynote, Adobe Reader, etc.) you must click the Open In  menu on the top right hand corner.  This loads the appropriate application which then mostly seem to copy the file to their environment and then you have to click on the file again to open it in the APP.   Seems like a very tedious way to do things and quick contrary to the normal intuitive ways one would expect the Apple environment to work.   Wish someone could explain why Apple has made it so ridiculously hard to simply open a document.
If you edit a file in the APP on the iPad/iPhone then it seems impossible to copy the file back to DropBox.

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