Search chips, a function that’s alleged to make it simpler to seek for recordsdata in Google Drive, is changing into accessible to all Workspace customers, together with G Suite Primary and Enterprise customers. It was first launched as a beta in November and will allow you to slender down your search outcomes by location, file kind, date modified, individuals, duties, and shared label.
As Google demonstrates within the above GIF, you should use search chips by getting into a key phrase in Drive’s search bar as you usually would. Proper beneath the search bar, you’ll see six totally different dropdown menus for search chips: Location, File Sort, Folks, Final Modified, Title solely, and To do. Deciding on from these menus will filter your search outcomes accordingly — for instance, click on Location, and also you’ll get to filter your outcomes by Anyplace in Drive, My Drive, Shared with me, Starred, and Trashed.
Google beforehand hid Drive’s extra restricted assortment of search filters inside a dropdown tab constructed into the search bar. Putting them simply above your search outcomes ought to make them simpler to search out and handle. Google rolled out search chips to Gmail in 2020, which you can even discover beneath the search bar. After utilizing search chips in Gmail, it’s good to see the function carried over to Drive, the place issues can get disorganized fairly shortly.
