Thanks this is a big resource ..

My Google Drive is linked and I’ll work up a strategy to populate the linked folder

My preliminary test gave <20% in Guru Answer for known data in the GD folder

Best wishes for fine-tuning and developing this Guru advance

This is awesome! But I can’t select a shared folder in my google drive that I’m a manager of. What do I need to do? 

Hey @Christophe Fernandez, thanks for the feedback!

That’s strange, it’s certainly performed better than that with our internal testing. Are you sure the folder was 100% synced before running your tests? Sometimes it can take a bit of time depending on how much data was imported.

This is awesome! But I can’t select a shared folder in my google drive that I’m a manager of. What do I need to do? 

 

@Ro@Ontraport So for the time being, you can only select a folder to import and that is a “Shared Drive” which despite essentially just being a folder is not able to be brought into Answers. In this scenario if you click into that Shared Drive you will be able to select a folder to import.

That being said, this is the first iteration of Google Drive permissions for Answers and we’re already designing a more intuitive flow.

@Noah Carpenter, thank you for the reply and update! I look forward to the more intuitive flow as there are no folders in the shared drive and thus, no folder to select - all the docs I want to sync up to Guru are in there. 

@Ro@Ontraport I totally understand! When setting this up internally we moved all the files into a folder and just selected that folder if you’re looking for something to hold you over in the meantime!

Many thanks Noah

•  the sync is perfect from my workspace
  • the Google data are compact and tailored for first testing Guru Answers
  • but returns miss significant Google Data and bias to less significant Guru content
  • I’ll persevere because it might involve algo-learning early stages
  • the copy answer function is great thanks
  • a bonus of the Guru/Google data is my using Google’s smart-doc function more fluently
  • please see my answer submission feedback

Hi @Noah Carpenter! Super excited about this feature, but also anticipate us using it very selectively (we want content to first and foremost be in Guru). Out of curiosity, how does this connection handle files that are shortcuts to other folders or drives? Essentially wondering if the folder(s) we sync needs to be the official home for every document, or if they can be shortcuts? It will become unwieldy if we sync a folder from every unit or department (oofa that’d be a lot!), but I could see us requiring teams to put a shortcut to their files in a specific folder or set of folders. Thanks!

Is there a list of the file types Guru will be able to leverage for this feature? And if multiple file types, is there a preference? The reason behind my question is whether there is an advantage in adding content files as Google Sheets vs Google Docs, for instance.

Thanks @Raphael Varieras  for your question..

Optimum File-Types

• My experience from in vivo assessment is
  • Google suite files Sheets Docs Slides are transparent to Guru Beta almost perfectly
  • Glitches and misses are almost certainly on the Guru Algorithm side
    • Google Cloud Search validates my diagnosis
      • Guru returns the first instance without sufficient discrimination
        • other significant data instances are passed over
          • I’m not expecting ‘show all’ but more weighting of searched data for balance in results
  • pdf md and even my handwriting in digi-ink return valid (strong) data results
  • I pass large volumes of parent-app data from PKMs to my Google Drive-Guru sync folder and these return valid (strong) data results

Thanks again and thanks Guru Team for the steady perfecting of this function

Christophe

Hey @Raphael Varieras! Great question!

There is no preference between file types, we will treat them all equally as information for answers! As @Christophe Fernandez mentioned, we also support pdf’s, plain text and apparently digi-ink (I didn’t know that!)