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# Drive & 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](/getting-started/using-perisclaw.md), and Perisclaw walks you through a one-time Google sign-in.

{% hint style="success" %}
*"Connect my Google Drive and Sheets."*
{% endhint %}

If you've already connected your [Google Calendar](/skills-and-integrations/calendar.md), 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.

{% hint style="info" %}
*"Save this invoice to the Expenses 2026 folder."*
{% endhint %}

![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](/files/B3W0ZAwOD2mxBevcnxBA)

### 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`.

{% hint style="info" %}
*"Create a folder called Legal Q3 and move this contract there."*
{% endhint %}

### 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.

{% hint style="info" %}
*"Log this receipt: 45 for lunch with the team."*
{% endhint %}

### 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.

{% hint style="info" %}
*"What's the total spend on travel last month?"*
{% endhint %}

![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](/files/JDbH0bn95Cxdky9mXjjx)

### 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.

{% hint style="info" %}
*"Mark row 15 in the invoice sheet as paid."*
{% endhint %}

## Good to know

{% hint style="warning" %}
Perisclaw works only with the folders, files, and sheets **it creates**. It can't read or change anything that was already in your Drive before you connected — your existing files stay private and untouched.
{% endhint %}

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.


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