Google Drive taught me how to organize
Updated May 11, 2018
Google Drive taught me how to organize
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Google Drive
We use Google Drive to organize our files and projects. Because we are in the photography industry, we have many photos and video clips we need to store and share. Google Drive is perfect for this, as it allows us to segment our photos so that we can easily find photos that we have sorted without digging through numbered file names. I also appreciate the collaborative tools that have been put into the software (eg. Google Forms, docs). This allows our team members to work on documents at different times, but we are able to see what changes have been made and make comments on them to work faster and more efficiently. It also solves the problem of storage space. I personally find it risky to rely on hard drives (of course, it depends on the situation), as I am forgetful and may lose things or forget to bring it to a meeting with a client. As long as there is Internet I am good to go!
- Easy to learn and easy to use. Everything is laid out intuitively so it's easy to pick things up!
- You can make endless folders to keep everything organized.
- It's easy to share files and links with others.
- You can easily set level of privilege that the people you share the files with have, so not everyone is able to edit.
- When converting to a PDF file, the formatting may change, which can be annoying for documents that require particular citation formats or images.
- The switching between gmail accounts used to work a lot better for me. Now, I have to sign out each time and sign back in to my other account instead of clicking the button on the dropdown menu.
- Not applicable. However, my clients do like the fact that images and samples can be easily accessed online, especially in a view-only form; they don't need to download files to look at them.
I like Google Drive a lot more because you get more free space. I haven't run out of room yet!