# Drive & Sheets

Canonical URL: https://docs.perisclaw.com/drive-and-sheets

Connect Google Drive and Sheets, and Perisclaw becomes the way you file documents and log data, straight from your chats. Anything that arrives or gets decided in WhatsApp can go where it belongs without you downloading it, opening another app, or hunting for the right folder or cell.

## Connecting your Drive and Sheets

Just ask in your [self-chat](/use-cases), and Perisclaw walks you through a one-time Google sign-in.

  *"Connect my Google Drive and Sheets."*

If you've already connected your [Google Calendar](/calendar), you're set. The same Google sign-in covers Drive and Sheets, so there's nothing separate to authorize.

## What you can do with it

### Save files to Drive instantly

Documents you get on WhatsApp (contracts, invoices, receipts, briefs) otherwise sit buried in chat history. Forward one to Perisclaw, or point it at a chat, and it files the document straight into the right Drive folder with a single instruction.

  *"Save this invoice to the Expenses 2026 folder."*

![Perisclaw confirming it filed a PDF into a Work/Projects folder on Drive, with a shared link, and offering to extract the action items into a task list]

### Keep Drive organized

Perisclaw handles the filing system, not just the file. It can create folders on the fly, move documents between them, and rename files to a consistent convention, like `2026-06-Vendor.pdf`, so they're actually findable later instead of saved as `IMG-202401.pdf`.

  *"Create a folder called Legal Q3 and move this contract there."*

### Log data into a Sheet

Numbers shared in chat (an expense, a lead, an order) usually never make it into a spreadsheet, because opening one to log a single line isn't worth it. Send Perisclaw the detail or the receipt and it reads what matters (date, vendor, amount) and appends it as a row. It can create a new sheet if you don't have one yet.

  *"Log this receipt: 45 for lunch with the team."*

### Query your Sheets

Once data is in a sheet, you can ask about it without opening it. Perisclaw reads the sheet and answers right in the chat, so a total or a count is one message away wherever you are.

  *"What's the total spend on travel last month?"*

![Perisclaw confirming it logged three receipts into a June Expenses sheet with a running total, and offering to alert when a spending limit is reached]

### Update records

Trackers go stale when updating them is a chore. Perisclaw can change a value, mark a status, or update a specific row on your instruction, so your records stay current from the chat.

  *"Mark row 15 in the invoice sheet as paid."*

### Manage the tabs, not just the cells

A tracker usually outgrows one tab. Perisclaw can add a new sheet for the new month, rename one, or clear a range that's gone stale, so the structure keeps up with the data.

  *"Add an August tab to the expenses sheet, same columns as July."*

### Work across several accounts

You can connect more than one Google account (your work one and your personal one) and tell Perisclaw which to use. Say *"connect my work Google too,"* and from then on *"save this to my work Drive"* goes to the right place.

## Good to know

  **Drive is scoped to what Perisclaw touches.** In Drive, it only ever sees the folders and files **it created** for you. The rest of your Drive (everything that was there before you connected) stays private and invisible to it.

  **Sheets works differently on purpose.** So that Perisclaw can log into a tracker you already keep, it can open a spreadsheet **you give it the link to**, as well as ones it creates. It can't go looking through your Drive for spreadsheets; you have to hand it the one you mean.

With Drive & Sheets connected, your important documents are never lost to the noise of chat history. They're filed into a structured, searchable archive as you go.

  On Microsoft instead? Connecting [Microsoft 365](/connecting-apps) gives
  Perisclaw your OneDrive files alongside Outlook mail, calendar, and contacts.

### [Connect more tools](/connecting-apps)

Slack, Notion, Microsoft 365, and other apps work the same way.

### [File and log automatically](/automations)

Turn a working request into recurring behavior, like logging every invoice.

### [Find any file later](/search-across-everything)

Describe what you remember and Perisclaw finds the document.