Google Drive

Context & docs

Pull Google Docs, Sheets and Slides into your specs

Most projects have something important sitting in a Google Doc - the statement of work, the pricing sheet, the deck the client actually signed off. Connect Google Drive, pick up to ten files through Google's own Picker, and Spectr reads them every time it drafts: docs as text, spreadsheets tab by tab, decks slide by slide including the speaker notes.

How Google Drive fits in

Import your call. Let Spectr take over.

A call is imported from a note-taker (Fathom, Granola, Read.ai, or Fireflies.ai). Spectr picks out a requirement, a bug, an action item and an out-of-scope ask, reads Google Drive, Notion, and Figma for context, and drafts a story and a bug with acceptance criteria. A person approves both, they are published to the team's tracker (Jira, Linear, or Shortcut), and the requirements, scope log and project memory update from the same call.

How it connects

OAuth using Google's narrow per-file scope. Spectr can only ever open the specific files you select in the Picker - it has no view of the rest of your Drive.

Before you start

A Google account that can open the Docs, Sheets and Slides you pick. Up to ten files per project, each chosen in the Google Picker.

What Spectr reads from Google Drive

Up to ten pinned files
Selected through the Google Picker, with tabs for Docs, Sheets and Slides. You can browse into subfolders while picking, but files are granted individually - which is what keeps the permission genuinely narrow.
Documents, spreadsheets and presentations
A Doc is read as text; a Sheet is rendered as one text table per tab; a deck is read slide by slide including speaker notes.
Transcript duplicates are dropped
A Google Doc that merely restates the meeting transcript is detected and skipped, so the same content does not consume the context budget twice.

Setting it up

  1. Open Integrations on the Spectr project the files belong to.

  2. Choose Google and click Connect, then authorise on Google's consent screen.

  3. Use the Google Picker to select up to ten Docs, Sheets or Slides. Multi-select is enabled.

  4. Generate a spec sheet and check Context Gathered: every Doc, Sheet or deck Spectr opened is listed by name.

Frequently asked questions

Anything else? Email hello@crowdlinker.com and a person will answer.

Can Spectr see my whole Google Drive?

No. Spectr uses Google's per-file scope, which grants access only to files you explicitly select in the Picker. Everything else in your Drive is invisible to it.

Can I paste a Google Doc link instead of using the Picker?

No, and the reason is the permission model rather than a missing feature. Access is granted by the act of selecting a file in the Picker - a pasted URL provides an id but no grant, so it could never actually be read.

Can I select a whole folder?

No. Under the per-file scope, selecting a folder grants access to the folder object and not to the files inside it. Navigate into the folder in the Picker and select the files you want.

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