Priority is a feature in Google Drive that will help you organize your documents into related workspaces. This can be useful for quick access to projects that need to be constantly updated.

 

To start with, navigate to your google drive. This can be done by clicking the icon next to your google account profile. When selected, this icon will open up a sub-menu. From this menu click on “Drive: 

 

 

If you want to make the Priority Page your default home page in Drive, then once on the Google Drive page locate the icon located in a similar spot to the icon from the step above. From this submenu click on settings. 

In the settings menu notice there are 3 sections that can be accessed. The “General” tab should be selected by default. From here scroll down until you see “Suggestions.”

Check the bottom box to make “Priority” appear on the Google Drive homepage. When finished click on the DONE button at the top right of the settings menu.

Workspaces

On the Priority menu, which will be the new default Drive page if the steps above were followed, there is a section at the bottom labeled “Workspaces.” There will be two boxes below; “Suggested Workspaces,” and “Create Workspace”

The “Suggested Workspace” box will include documents that are frequently opened, edited, or viewed. Clicking the “Save” button will save those documents to your Priority page. 

If these documents are not important or do not need to be accessed often, click the “Dismiss” button to hide the suggestions.

 

The next box is the “Create Workspace” box. From here custom workspaces can be created. 

Clicking on the “Create Workspace” button will prompt you to name the workspace and then create it. After the workspace is created, files can be added.

When the Workspace is created, it will open another menu. The workspace will be blank at first, clicking the “Add Files” button will open a side menu where documents in your drive can be accessed.

This side menu will have multiple options listed at the top. The first option, which is selected by default, is the recent tab. This tab is helpful to see what documents have been accessed. It will sort when the document was last viewed, “Today,” “Last Week,” and “Last month.”

On the top there are “>” icons, these are used to navigate through Google Drive. 

There will be 6 categories; Recent, My Drive, Shared Drives, Shared with Me, Starred, and Computers. The first three sections will contain the majority of the Google Drive files. 

Multiple files can be selected simply by clicking on more than one. When a file, or files, have been selected at the bottom of the menu there will be an option to insert those files into the new workspace. Keep in mind that there is a 25 file limit to each workspace.

Once insert is selected the files chosen will show up under the new workspace. Click the Done button at the bottom right. A workspace, such as the one below will allow you to access your topic specific files anytime.