Every File in Your Drive. Searchable by Meaning.

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   In Mindly, open Settings, then Integrations, and click Connect on the Google Drive row. The Google sign-in flow opens in your browser.

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   Sign in to the Google account that holds your files and approve the read-only permission Mindly requests. Mindly never gets write access, so nothing in your Drive can be modified.

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   Pick the folders or specific files you want indexed. You can connect a single research folder, a few client folders, or your entire My Drive. Add more later or revoke at any time from Google Account settings.

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   Mindly reads the contents of each supported file, runs AI tagging and summarization, and adds them to your library as searchable items. New files added to connected folders show up in Mindly automatically.

• The Drive folder graveyard

  You have hundreds of Google Docs and uploaded PDFs accumulated over years: meeting notes, drafts, project briefs, papers, contracts. Drive search works only inside Drive and only on titles you remember. Mindly reads the full content of each file and makes it findable by topic, or by a phrase you remember from inside it.

• Research and writing in one library

  You write drafts in Google Docs, but the supporting PDFs, screenshots, and notes live elsewhere. Mindly puts all of it under one search and one mind map. The draft and the source material stop being in two places.

• Meeting notes that stay useful

  Meeting notes in Drive are useful for a week and forgotten after that. Imported into Mindly, they get tagged by project, summarized by AI, and connected to other meetings on the same topic. The pattern across months becomes visible.

• Mixed file types in one search

  A typical Drive holds Docs, PDFs, images, scanned receipts, exported Word files, Markdown drafts. Mindly handles all of them through one connection: full-text indexing for text-based files, OCR-style tagging for images. The doc you need is one Mindly search away regardless of format.

• Full-text indexing across file types

  Drive search treats body content as second-class for most file types. Mindly indexes the full text of Google Docs, PDFs, text files, and Markdown stored in Drive, so a phrase you wrote in paragraph three becomes findable months later without remembering the filename.

• AI summaries on long files

  A 12-page strategy doc gets a paragraph summary in Mindly. A 40-page PDF gets the same treatment. Scanning what is in your Drive becomes scanning a list of summaries instead of opening every file.

• New files added automatically

  Once a folder is connected, new files created or uploaded into it show up in Mindly within a short window. No manual import, no daily routine.

• Read-only access, scoped

  The integration only requests permission to read the folders and files you select. Mindly cannot edit, delete, rename, or share anything in your Drive. You can revoke access from your Google Account settings at any time.

Google Drive is excellent for storing and collaborating on files. It is mediocre at being a long-term knowledge base for one person. The longer you use Drive, the worse the "find the thing I saved" problem gets. Drive search assumes you remember filenames; you do not. The folder structure assumes you put things in the right place; you did not. The result is a slow, accumulating cost: files you saved three years ago that contained useful material are effectively gone because the cost of finding them outweighs the cost of recreating the work. The Mindly Google Drive integration solves the long-term problem without forcing you to leave the short-term tool. You keep working in Drive. You search and find in Mindly. The split between storage tool and memory tool turns out to be exactly right.

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