If you want to improve your daily Google Drive efficiency, these five tips can help.
I depend on Google Drive. I use it every day and I’m in and out of it from morning ‚til night. Because I spend so much time working within the cloud storage system, I’ve come up with a few „tricks“ for making my experience more effective and efficient.
Before I get to these helpful tips, you should know that these aren’t about the individual apps within Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms). These tips are about Drive itself and getting the most out of the platform. So, if you’re looking for specific tips about one of the included tools, you’ll want to continue your search. However, if you want to improve your daily Drive work, you’re in the right place.
With that said, let’s get to the tips.
1. Organize your folders
This should go without saying, but organizing your folders is a must. If you simply save everything in the root directory of Google Drive, you’ll wind up with an absolute mess on your hands. Even if you create folders to house documents, if those folders have zero organization to them, you’ll spend more time searching for files than you do working with them.
Say, for instance, you have either specific clients or projects you work with. You might create a folder for Client A, Client B, Client C, and Client D, or Project 1, Project 2, Project 3, and Project 4. If you work with both clients and projects, you might create a folder called CLIENTS and one called PROJECTS and then create subfolders called Client A, Client B, Client C, Client D, etc.
