
Individuals may see different files in your folders, depending on their access to specific files.Files and folders must be shared individually.You don't have to share files in My Drive, but you can if you'd like to.Store and access content that pertains to you as an individual as well as files you're not ready to share just yet.Shared drives are Stanford’s preferred collaboration platform. Within Google Drive, you’ll find two different spaces for files: My Drive and Shared drives. Google Drive is a service for cloud-based file storage and synchronization that’s available to students, faculty, and staff with a Stanford Google account. Shared drives Control where files live based on your needs (It might take a second or two to load.My Drive vs. When you're in the document, look up to the file icon next to the title. You can create folders straight from Google Docs after opening up the document. Folders are pretty much the primary way to keep your files organized in G Suite (now known as Google Workspace as of October 2020).

Using Docs or Drive, you can start creating folders and putting your files into them.

Don't worry if you can't remember making it you automatically get one the moment you create a Google Account. So, here's the thing: to organize your documents, you'll need to get your Google Drive account involved. but that doesn't help much with tidying up your screen. There's also switching the thumbnail view into a list view and filtering visible documents by ownership.

You can create new documents open existing documents and sort all your documents by title, and when they were last modified or opened. It's pretty silly and weirdly inconvenient, but you can't actually do a lot of file management in Google Docs. So you've finally had enough of frantically searching for one of your 500 poorly-labeled files and are ready to organize your Google Docs.
