Google Drive
Google Drive is Google's cloud storage. When you connect your Google account to Ordalie, the files in your Drive become available in your workspace: you can browse them, search them and use them with the assistant, without downloading or copying anything.
This is a personal connection, tied to your own Google account: you set it up for yourself. Two paths lead to it, and they end up in the same place. From your workspace, open the Documents section of the left sidebar and choose Connect a source. Or open Settings and go to the Integrations tab, where Google Drive is listed among your personal integrations.
The connection is read-only. A Google sign-in window opens: sign in with your Google account and authorize Ordalie; once you confirm, the window closes and your Google Drive appears among your connected sources.
Your Drive files are then ready to use. You can browse your Drive folders, find a file by its name or by its content, and attach a PDF, a Word file or a Google Doc to a conversation so the assistant reads and cites it. Each citation opens the document, with a link to the original file in Drive.
Ordalie reads your Drive live: nothing is indexed or copied in advance, and a file added to your Drive shows up in Ordalie right away.
Permissions and access
Ordalie asks Google for a single Drive permission, drive.readonly, which lets it view and download your files. Ordalie never creates, modifies, shares or deletes files in your Drive. This access has been verified by Google. Your access token is stored securely and refreshed automatically when it expires, and your Drive data is never used to train an AI model (Article 3.6 of our privacy policy).
Frequently asked questions
Which formats are supported? PDFs, Word files and other documents are read as they are. Google Docs, Sheets and Slides are read after conversion to Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and Google Drawings as PDF.
How do I disconnect? Open Settings and go to Integrations, find your Google Drive connection and disconnect it. This deletes the tokens Ordalie stores. To also remove the authorization on Google's side, open the Third-party apps & services page of your Google account.