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Connect Indexbrain to Google Drive to search your Docs and Slides — read-only.

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Setup

1

Go to Integrations

Navigate to Settings > Integrations > Google Drive.
2

Choose a mode

Whole Drive syncs every eligible file automatically, or Picker lets you select specific files.
3

Authorize

Sign in with Google and grant access.

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Capabilities

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Search Docs and Slides

Only Google Docs and Slides are synced — Sheets, PDFs, and images are never read (Sheets often hold sensitive numeric data like budgets or comp, which doesn’t fit a fact-extraction pipeline well, and PDFs/images have no text-extraction step here).

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Privacy: who can see what

Indexbrain reads each file’s real sharing permissions. A file shared with specific people is only visible in Indexbrain to those same people (if they’re in your org) — a file shared org-wide or with “anyone with the link” is visible to everyone.

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What Indexbrain does not do in Drive (yet)

  • No Sheets, PDFs, or images.
  • No write access — Indexbrain cannot create or edit files.

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How data moves

Files sync on your configured processing interval, using a real incremental filter — only files modified since the last sync are re-listed, not the whole Drive every time.

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Troubleshooting

  • Confirm it’s a Doc or Slide, not a Sheet, PDF, or image.
  • Wait for the next scheduled sync, or trigger a manual sync.
  • Picker mode requires additional setup on Indexbrain’s side (a Google Picker API key) — if it’s unavailable, use Whole Drive mode instead.