{
  "id": 10428813,
  "title": "Try Google Drive Projects for fast, focused AI analysis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/try-google-drive-projects-for-fast-focused-ai-analysis",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-28T11:17:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Computerworld",
    "slug": "computerworld",
    "url": "https://www.computerworld.com/article/4219866/google-drive-projects-focused-ai-analysis-in-google-workspace.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Google Drive offers a cloud storage solution for organizing Google Workspace files, including documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and media. Users with Gemini, Google's AI assistant, can request AI analysis or summaries of their Drive files. This is advantageous, as it allows users to rapidly retrieve specific information, like a business budget, without manually sifting through multiple files. Gemini can also access Gmail and content from other Workspace tools for context.\n\nHowever, issues arise when users have numerous files in their Drive library. As they create new documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, their storage space fills up, causing Gemini to slow down as it scans the entire library for requested information. To address this, Google introduced Projects in Drive, a feature designed to help Gemini process files more efficiently.\n\nProjects enable users to create a focused work environment for Gemini by grouping specific documents and other sources from their Drive and other Workspace tools. When users chat with Gemini within a Project, it analyzes only the materials attached to that Project. This should result in faster processing and more contextual results. Users can share Projects with colleagues, who can access only the files included in that Project.\n\nTo utilize Projects in Drive, users need a subscription that includes Gemini access, which is not available on personal Google accounts. Business and enterprise users with Google Workspace accounts that include Gemini (Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus) can access Projects. Currently, creating and opening Projects is only possible in the Google Drive web app. Mobile users can view, rename, share, and adjust share permissions for their projects. To create a new Project, users can click the New button on the Drive home page, select \"New project,\" or type \"project.new\" in the address bar for a quicker creation process. Users then add relevant Workspace sources, select the materials they want to include, and click \"Create project.\" A new page will open, displaying the Project title, a panel listing the sources, and a chat area to the right. Turning on the \"Let Gemini search for sources\" switch in the left panel allows Gemini to search Gmail, Google Chat, Google Calendar, and other Google Workspace activity for additional relevant sources during user prompts.",
  "summary": "Google Drive is the cloud platform for storing and organizing your Google Workspace files: documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and even media (images, audio, and video). If your Workspace account includes Gemini, Google’s AI assistant, you can prompt it to work with your files , such as asking it to analyze or sum up information from your Drive files. Obviously, this is quite convenient:…",
  "key_points": [
    "Google Drive offers AI analysis via Gemini for Workspace files.",
    "Projects feature groups specific files for efficient Gemini processing.",
    "Projects available to Workspace users with Gemini access, not personal accounts."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}