Drive gives you infinite space and no memory of why anything is there. So you build folders, then a naming convention, then you stop maintaining both — and the file you want is final-v3-USE-THIS.pdf in a folder called Misc.
Every file storage product hands you an empty hierarchy and calls it freedom. But a folder only means something if you keep meaning it — and one person running four projects will not, because filing is work that produces nothing.
Meanwhile the thing you actually remember about a file is never its path. It's the screenshot Claire sent about the reading packs — a person, a conversation, a week.
So the attachment is the filing. Put the file on the thing it's about, and you never have to decide where it lives.
A ticket, a note, a project, a meeting, an invoice. Drag it, pick it, or paste a screenshot straight from the clipboard — which is how most of them arrive.
Search the filename, the client, the project, or the words in the note it's attached to. No path to remember, because there isn't one.
One link, expiring or not, revocable whenever. No login for them, no folder shared by accident, and nothing else of yours reachable from it.
10 GB in the base. Files are the one thing metered here, because they're the one thing that costs money. Past that, +100 GB for $5, and going over never deletes anything.
Most of what arrives isn't a document. It's a photo of a form, a screenshot of an error, a picture of a note on the counter — and it arrives in a text message.
So a pasted image carries an action: make a ticket from this. The file, the request and the person it came from end up on one record — and if you've added your own AI key it reads the image and fills the form for you to approve. The assistant is off until you paste a key in; it's your account and your bill, and I never hold it.
Keep it, and keep the big things there — video, archives, the decade of stuff. I'm not trying to be your disk, and 10 GB says so honestly. What Drive can't do is know that this PDF is the signed scope for the project you're invoicing, raised on the ticket Claire opened in March. Put the files that belong to the work where the work is, and leave the rest where it is.
There is no tree, no move, no rename-to-sort. The attachment is the filing, and it was done the moment you attached it.
Past 10 GB you stop being able to add, and everything you have stays exactly where it is. Nothing is ever removed to make room.
The export includes every file, in folders named after what they were attached to — so the structure you never had to build gets built on the way out.
Yes — through Ground Control's intake or a reply on their ticket link, and it lands attached to that ticket. Still no account for them.
A ticket, a note, a project, a meeting, an invoice, an estimate — and a task. A file on a task also belongs to its project, inferred through the task, so ticking the task off never takes the file with it.
No. Attach the new one; the old one stays attached with its own date. Two files with two dates is a version history you can actually read.
No. They're stored encrypted at rest with one storage provider, named in the privacy page, and I don't open them — the only time I'd look is if you write and ask me to fix something.
That's the whole test. In three weeks, see whether you can find it faster here than in the folder you would have made.