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Connect Google Drive to Notion

Files live in Google Drive, while plans, trackers and notes live in Notion. Connect them to turn new files into Notion entries with a summary, set up Drive folders and Notion pages together, and keep backups of your Notion data in Drive.
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Ideas

What you can do with Google Drive and Notion

New Drive files summarised into Notion, matching folders and pages, and Notion backups saved to Drive. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
Every 15 minutesAI

Turn recordings in Google Drive into summarised notes in Notion

Drop an audio recording in your Drive folder and get a Notion page with its summary and action items.

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Every 15 minutesAI

Screen new résumés from Google Drive into Notion

Each new CV dropped into your Drive folder is read, scored against the job, and added as a card on your Notion hiring board.

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The moment it happens

Save files to Drive and log them in Notion from Telegram

Files you send to your Telegram bot are saved in your Drive folder and listed in Notion with a link and your note.

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The moment it happens

Create a Drive folder and Notion page for each new client

When your onboarding form is submitted, the client gets a Drive folder copied from your template and a Notion client page linking to it.

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Every 15 minutesAI

Review new contracts in Drive and log the findings in Notion

When a contract or finance document lands in your Drive folder, AI reviews it for risky terms and the findings are saved as a Notion page.

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Every 15 minutes

Import contacts from a CSV in Google Drive into Notion

Drop a contacts CSV into your Drive folder and each contact is added to your Notion database, with duplicates skipped.

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On a scheduleAI

Catalogue new Drive photos in a Notion gallery

Photos added to your Drive portfolio folder are described, tagged and catalogued in your Notion gallery database.

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On a schedule

Back up your Notion databases to Google Drive every night

Each night your Notion databases are saved as files in a dated Drive folder, and you get an email if the backup fails.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Google Drive and Notion, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Google Drive and Notion automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Google Drive and Notion in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Only add Drive files to Notion if they are PDFs over one page, and use AI to set a Type property to invoice, contract or report.

Each night, check that every Notion project page has a Drive folder link, and create the missing folders under Clients in Drive.

Use cases

Why people connect Google Drive and Notion

How the two apps work together

  • ClickRuntime checks a Drive folder for new files every few minutes and creates a Notion database page for each one with a link.
  • Text from Docs, PDFs and similar files can be read and summarised or parsed by AI into Notion properties.
  • When a new Notion page appears, the script can create a Drive folder or file and write its link back into the page.

  • Index new documents in Notion

    Teams that store files in Google Drive but organise work in Notion want each new file listed. A Notion page with the file name, owner, folder and link makes Drive searchable from Notion.

  • Summarise uploaded reports

    Analysts drop PDFs and Docs into a Drive folder. AI writes a short summary into a Notion page so the team can skim before opening the file.

  • Client folders for new Notion projects

    Agencies create a Notion project page for each new client. A matching Drive folder can be created and its link written back to the page.

  • Contract tracking

    Legal and ops teams save signed contracts to Drive. Each one becomes a Notion entry with counterparty, renewal date and file link pulled from the document.

More apps

Google Drive, Notion and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

New contracts in Drive to Notion with Slack alert

When a PDF lands in the Signed Contracts Drive folder, add a Notion entry with the counterparty and renewal date and post it in #legal on Slack.

Project brief Doc from a Notion page

When a Notion project moves to Kickoff, create a Google Doc brief from our template in the project's Drive folder and add the link to the page.

Renewal reminder emails

Every Monday, check the Notion contracts database for renewals in the next 30 days and email me the list with each Drive link through Gmail.

Setup

Connect Google Drive and Notion once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

Google Drive

File storage

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, create a project and enable the Google Drive API.
  2. Set up the OAuth consent screen and add the scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.
  3. Create an OAuth client of type Web application with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Google Drive and enter the client ID and secret, then connect.
  5. Prefer a service account? Under IAM & Admin → Service Accounts, create one and add a JSON key, share your folders or a Shared Drive with its email, and save the key as a secret on Connections & secrets.

Notion

Productivity / Docs

  1. In Notion, open the developer portal at notion.so/profile/integrations and create a new internal integration.
  2. On its Configuration tab, copy the integration secret.
  3. On each page or database the automation should use, open ••• → Add connections and pick your integration.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the secret as a secret for Notion.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Google Drive and Notion

Which Drive folders does it watch?
Only the folder you choose, and its subfolders if you want. The rest of your Drive is left alone.
Are files copied into Notion?
Usually the Notion entry links to the file in Drive, with a summary or extracted details. The file itself stays in Drive.
Will a file be added twice?
No. Each file's ID is remembered once it has been handled, so renaming or moving it does not create a second entry.
Which Notion databases can it use?
Only the ones shared with your Notion connection, from the database's ••• menu under Connections.
Can it read scanned PDFs?
Files with selectable text work best. Scanned images without a text layer may give little or no text to summarise.
Does it notice files edited later?
It can. The script can compare each file's modified time with the last run and update the Notion page when a file changes.
Does it handle subfolders?
Yes, if you ask for it. The script can look through subfolders of the folder you name.

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