Using the Google Workspace App
Connect your Google Workspace account to bring your contacts, calendar, and email history into ContactDrive.
Availability
Google Workspace isn't listed in the public marketplace; it's enabled by our support team. Get in touch if you'd like it turned on.
Connecting your account
This is a per-user integration, and that's the key thing to understand about it. Each person on your team connects their own Google account and keeps their own settings — several people in one workspace can each be connected, syncing their own mail and calendar, and one person's settings differ from another's.
- Open the app's Settings.
- Authorize with Google.
- Choose what to sync.
Choosing what to sync
Once connected, the app reads what's available on your Google account and lets you pick:
- Contacts — which Google contact groups to sync, or all of them.
- Calendars — which calendars to check for events, or all of them.
- Email — which Gmail labels to check, or all mail.
Take the labels option seriously. Syncing all mail is rarely what you want — it pulls in every newsletter and receipt you've ever received. Applying a label to the correspondence that matters and syncing only that label gives you a far more useful timeline.
You also set a refresh schedule, and the app records when it last synced successfully so you can tell whether it's keeping up.
What lands in ContactDrive
Matched contacts get their Google contact details, and calendar events and email correspondence appear as activity on the relevant contacts' timelines — so a contact's record shows the meetings you've had and the threads you've exchanged, without anyone logging them by hand.
Meetings synced here also feed your Daily Brief.