hello everyone and welcome back to the keep productive youtube channel
this is just going to be a short video about the google drive priority and workspaces ability
there was launch back in march 2019 but it's a helpful feature for giving teams the ability
to manage personal workspaces and also see what's priority on their list so in order to enable this
you need a google workspace account previously g suite and this allows you to see this view now
the priority appears on the top left-hand page but if you wanted to you can actually change this so
that it is set as your default page in order to do that you can go to settings and then go down
to suggestions now you need to either deselect if you want the priority page to not be your default
home page but if you want it as your default home page then select it in the suggestions
and it will appear as the thing that you land on when you open your gmail now one other thing that
google recently added was the ability to convert automatically any microsoft word microsoft slides
and excel files into google docs editor format and you can make sure to select that on if you want it
to do it automatically here so as you can see at the top what google would do is make suggestions
on things that you've recently interacted with with you and your team now obviously all of these
have the only the prompt of open however if you were commenting on them or you're changing the
sharing ability to them that means you'll be able to see a different option here a different call to
action now the interesting thing are these things called workspaces they belong down here and allow
you to create small 20 file file limit workspaces to work in so that anything that you're working on
actively so at the moment i'm briefing the editor about some new introduction videos as he starts
his first week so in this case i might want to start adding some files that are useful to this
so as you can see here the workspace is open and what you can do is start adding files now you
don't naturally upload them from your your file or computers area you go to add files and as you can
see on the right hand side the ability to add to workspace appears so i might select a few things
that we might be working on together and that might need to review on my side so these might be
active documents for you but you could have this for an upcoming really important presentational
meeting so that you've got all of your files in the right location so if i press insert
as you can see here it creates this automatically and i can go and press
done here so if i ever need to come to this quickly i can quickly access them
there but if i wanted to have multiple ones i can have as many as i like
so what's cool is you can go to my drive you can go to shared with me you can go
to different options as well you can also for example have not just meetings set up but you
could also have per department but in this case i could have things i need to review
so i may actually want to review a few things in my workspace that i've been working on
so i'm going to select a few of these files and insert them and as you can see
you can add different types of formats but this is helpful to create almost
notes or i guess collections of things that you might want to save for later so for example
if you want to remove it you can quickly get rid of it naturally the files won't disappear
these are just collections of things that are already in your google drive almost just like
temporary folders but a little bit more easier to access but you can also hide a workspace so for
example when i'm done with this i could hide the workspace and they will appear down here as almost
like an archived section you can also unhide which basically restores it to this main area
so if i'm in my drive and i want to right click on something i can actually add it
to a workspace that exists for example if i wanted to move this to things to review
or create a new workspace from here that's how i can do it
and naturally if i go back to the priority section you should see that available in here
so that's how the priority and workspaces section work and as you can see here this
is how teams are using it to be a bit more fluid as you can see a
better example when it comes to all the different departments and usage
for the google workspace so folks hopefully that was a useful overview of this feature let me know
if you have any questions in the comments below anyway folks a big thank you cheerio
you