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title: "Zentrik + Google Drive"
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last_reviewed: 2026-03-28
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# Zentrik + Google Drive

Keep writing in Google Docs and deciding in Zentrik. Choose specific Docs for shared workspace context, link initiative documents to picked or app-created files, and refresh when both sides change without copy-pasting between tabs.

## Overview

Use Zentrik for **prioritization, discovery, and initiatives**, and Google for **drafting and comments** your team already knows. Pull Docs you explicitly choose into **workspace context** so everyone works from the same source, or link an **initiative document** to a picked or app-created Doc when collaboration should stay in Drive.

Exact buttons depend on where you are in the product; the pattern is always: **choose a file with Google Picker**, **confirm preview**, then use that content in Zentrik.

## Access and permissions

- **Google Drive**: Open only the specific files you choose so you can import Docs into Zentrik.
- **Google Docs**: Read and update picked or app-created Docs when your workflow keeps an initiative document in sync.
- **Google account**: Shows which Google profile is connected for this workspace.

## Connect Google Drive

Connect from **Settings → Integrations → Google Drive** and approve Google’s consent screen. You only do this once for the workspace integration your team shares.

### Before you start

- A Google account that can open the Docs you need.
- If your company blocks third-party apps, a **Google Workspace admin** may need to allow Zentrik before OAuth succeeds.

### Authorize in Zentrik

1. **Settings → Integrations → Google Drive**.
2. Start connect and pick the Google account that owns or has access to the Docs.
3. Approve the requested permissions.

If sign-in is blocked, work with your Google admin, then try again.

## How to use it

Capabilities show up in **workspace context** imports and **initiative document** flows. Upstream collaboration can stay in Google while Zentrik stays the place for product decisions and traceability.

### Workspace context

Import **Google Docs you explicitly choose** into shared workspace context so discovery, planning, and traceability reference the same PRDs, research notes, or decision logs you already maintain in Drive.

### Initiative documents

Link an initiative document to a Google Doc you explicitly choose or create upstream from Zentrik when your process expects continued editing in Google. When your workflow calls for it, refresh approved upstream changes into Zentrik or publish approved Zentrik edits back to the Doc. **Comments** stay managed in Google; Zentrik can surface them for context where the product supports it.

## For workspace admins

- **One Google Drive integration per Zentrik workspace** is typical: teammates reuse it instead of each signing in separately for the same workspace tasks.
- Zentrik only uses Google access for the workflows above: choosing specific files with Google Picker, importing content, and optional initiative document sync.
- **Revoke** from [Google Account security](https://myaccount.google.com/permissions) or by disconnecting in **Settings → Integrations**. If your admin changes policies, reconnect from Zentrik to refresh consent.

## Troubleshooting

### Cannot connect or Google blocks the app

Ask your **Google Workspace admin** to allow Zentrik, then disconnect and reconnect under **Settings → Integrations → Google Drive**. [Contact us](https://zentrik.ai/contact) if it still fails after admin approval.

### File or Doc not found

Confirm you connected with the Google account that **owns or has shared access** to that Doc, then re-open Google Picker and choose the file again. Disconnect in Zentrik and connect with the right profile if needed.

### Stopped working after a while

Reconnect from **Settings → Integrations**. If problems continue, disconnect completely and authorize once more.

## Related guides

- [Zentrik + Notion](https://zentrik.ai/docs/integrations/notion)
- [Zentrik + Confluence](https://zentrik.ai/docs/integrations/confluence)
- [Zentrik + Airtable](https://zentrik.ai/docs/integrations/airtable)