Moving data
Google Drive
Connect Google Drive to bring Docs, Sheets, Slides, and plain text files from the folders you choose into a brain. Changes are picked up automatically — your answers reflect your real Drive.
Auth
OAuth, read-only
Scope
Folders you pick
Checks
Change feed, 15 min
Skipped
PDFs, images, binaries
Ounie requests read-only access. It can never modify anything in your Drive.
How to connect#
Go to Settings → Google Drive and sign in with OAuth. Ounie requests read-only access — it can never modify anything in your Drive. After signing in, pick the folders you want to sync and choose the brain they should land in, then press Sync now to run the first load.
What syncs#
Ounie syncs from the folders you picked and all their subfolders. File types that become sources:
Google Docs
Converted to Markdown, headings and formatting preserved.
Google Sheets
Each sheet exported as CSV tables, then synthesized.
Google Slides
Slide text extracted in order.
Plain text and Markdown
Ingested directly.
Whatever the format, a file becomes text before anything else happens to it — one converter, then the same synthesis every other source gets. Other file types (PDFs, images, binary files) are skipped.
Ounie checks Drive’s change feed every 15 minutes; when a file is modified it re-syncs just that file. Files moved to the trash are removed from the brain on the next sync.
Staying grounded#
Synced files join the wiki and graph like any other source. Answers cite the document title and link back to the source in the brain so you can verify what they are based on. Edits update the existing source in place and never create duplicates.
Disconnecting#
Disconnecting from Settings → Google Drive revokes Ounie’s access. Sources already synced stay in the brain, but no new syncs happen until you reconnect. You can remove individual sources from the brain at any time.