Let’s Get Organized!-Google Drive
Are you at type A personality like me? Meaning, are you organized (among other things)…because I totally am! But as a teacher and as a Mom sometimes I can’t control the chaos that is life no matter how hard I try. But, let me tell you one place that I can keep totally organized without anyone else touching it and messing it up…my Google Drive.
As the end of my school year came to a close I wanted to be sure that I set myself up for success for the beginning of next school year and so I decided to jump into my Drive and make sure it was organized so that I could easily find everything that I needed. I want beginning of the school year ‘Me’ to thank end of the school year ‘Me’ and here is how I did it.
To begin, I filed through documents that I either didn’t realize were in my Drive or that I had no use for. Open your Google Drive and find the ‘Search’ bar at the top of the screen.
Next, in the ‘Search’ bar type in ‘Untitled’
When you search for ‘Untitled’ documents you will find ALL of the Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, etc. that you created but never named and/or haven’t used at all. Maybe you just created them because you wanted to try a new feature and once you tried that feature you didn’t delete your document. Or maybe you had an idea and wanted to get to working on it only to get distracted and either not complete the idea or accidentally create a new document. Either way you left some ‘Untitled’ documents in your Drive and they are making it messy so here is how you fix it in two easy steps.
Step 1: Once you search ‘Untitled’ and all of those document generate you need to look through each of them and decide…do I trash it or give it a name and keep it?
To delete/trash the document you can click on the three vertical dots next to the title on the tile and choose ‘Move to Trash’ at the bottom of the drop down menu.
To give the document a name because you want to keep it you click on the same three vertical dots and choose ‘Rename’ to give it an official and searchable title.
Step 2: Organize those files into folders
Now that you have cleaned up ‘untitled’ documents you may choose to leave them in your Drive or organize them into folders with other similar documents.
Folders live at the top of your Drive and you can create new folders or add to an existing folder.
Once you have renamed a document and want to add it to a folder you can click and drag the document up your screen until it hoovers over the folder you want to put it into and drop it into the folder or you can ‘Organize’ from menu that appears when you click on the three vertical dots and add it to a specific folder.
