Working on same iBook on two Macs

hi all,
I am working on the same iBook on my iMac and also, my Air 11. Is there any way to keep my work in sync on both computers? TIA.

I use Dropbox - keeps the file in the virtual cloud but locally downloaded and updated on each machine you login to your account with.
Therefore you work with the file on your hard drive but dropbox uploads it to the cloud in the background.
When you access a different machine it downloads the updated file in the background so you always work on the latest incarnation.

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