Pull documents from icloud on my mac

Hi all,
I use a Macbook (10.7.3 as of yesterday Feb 1st, 2012) and my Iphone (iOS 5.0.1 as the last update), both have iWork suites for the respective platforms, have the latest updates as well; sometimes I have to leave my computer at home and show whatever to whomever some documents I have created on my phone.
I would like to have my Mac show the documents I have on the cloud (iCloud) and besides storing ANOTHER copy of the document on the Mobile Documents folder of /Library/ to use that same file I have on my real Documents folder.
This is resulting in double the files and VERY large too, a 2 page Word document without images, should not be 1 or +MB on a Pages file/.TEF file.
I do understand that documents can be uploaded to iCloud from the mac, using Safari, but having the Documents DUPLICATED it is becoming very annoying.
One should have the easyness to create a beautiful document on a Mac, automatically upload it to the iCloud and present it to a client without having to carry a laptop. Yes that can be done with an iPad, but unfortunately I do not own one.
Are there any real solutions?
Thank you

There is no solution until Apple decides to make the Mac iWork apps directly iCloud compatible.

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