Google is testing a new home page for Drive on the web. The UI redesign adds a dedicated “Home” section to the left navigation panel, which will display “your most important files and folders,” as the company explains. The idea is to help you find what you need faster, based on your history and usage patterns.
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According to a recent tweet from @googledrive, the new home page is currently being tested with a small group of Google Drive users. A GIF shared by the company shows a Home button above My Drive, which currently sits at the top of the left navigation panel. The current layout provides a list/grid of all the documents stored in Drive, as well as some suggested documents at the top.
With the new homepage, Google Drive will provide more suggestions to help you find documents faster. In the “Suggested” tab, Google will work its magic, providing a stream of suggested documents that can be easily filtered by file type, folder, people, location, last modified date, and more with the click of a button.
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This document feed has a “Suggested Reason” column, which explains why Google thinks someone might want to open a document. A file or document may be suggested because you or someone else in your organization has recently opened, edited, or uploaded it. Google will give you a time stamp showing when you last opened or edited the document, along with its location in Drive.
The “Activity” tab lists all recent activity related to a document, such as access requests, new comments, etc. Google lets you instantly grant or deny an access request from this feed and see new comments as well. An action box lets you choose whether to share a document with someone with view-only access or with more permissions.
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Google is still testing this new homepage in Drive
As previously mentioned, the new homepage for Google Drive on the web isn't yet widely available. The company is still testing this redesign and is asking for feedback from users who have received the new layout. If they don't like this change, they have the option to revert to the old layout. But Google may eventually push the new homepage to everyone once it irons out any glitches or bugs. We'll let you know when this change is broadly rolled out to all Google Drive users.
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