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+### The Nomad
+
+Alice is always on the move, often with her trusty netbook and a small
+handheld terabyte USB drive, or a smaller USB keydrive. She has a server
+out there on the net. All these things can have different files on them,
+but Alice no longer has to deal with the tedious process of keeping them
+manually in sync.
+
+When she has 1 bar on her cell, Alice queues up interesting files on her
+server for later. At a coffee shop, she has git-annex download them to her
+USB drive. High in the sky or in a remote cabin, she catches up on
+podcasts, videos, and games, first letting git-annex copy them from
+her USB drive to the netbook (this saves battery power).
+
+When she's done, she tells git-annex which to keep and which to remove.
+They're all removed from her netbook to save space, and Alice knowns
+that next time she syncs up to the net, her changes will be synced back 
+to her server.
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+### The Archivist
+
+Bob has many drives to archive his data, most of them kept offline, in a
+safe place.
+
+With git-annex, Bob has a single directory tree that includes all
+his files, even if their content is being stored offline. He can
+reorganize his files using that tree, committing new versions to git,
+without worry about accidentially deleting anything. 
+
+When Bob needs access to some files, git-annex can tell him which drive(s)
+they're on, and easily make them available. Indeed, every drive knows what
+is on every other drive.
+
+Run in a cron job, git-annex adds new files to achival drives at night. It
+also helps Bob keep track of intentional, and unintentional copies of
+files, and logs information he can use to decide when it's time to duplicate
+the content of old drives.