Google Drive Shared Drive and Folder Recommended Structure [For Corporations]

Tadashi Shigeoka ·  Tue, January 28, 2020

I’ll introduce the recommended structure for Google Drive “Shared Drives” and “Folders” that corporations should set up after G Suite implementation.

G Suite | Google Apps

Prerequisites

Properly Setting Up G Suite from Startup Launch

Since I’m planning to launch a startup soon, and the beginning is crucial for everything, I want to properly configure things from the initial stage of G Suite implementation.

As part of this, I created Google Drive shared drives and folders by referencing the following “Google Drive structure” tweet I had seen before.

Referencing Google Drive Structure Tweet

For the composition of Google Drive shared drives and folders for corporate companies using G Suite, I referred to the following tweet:

Google Drive Structure Google Spreadsheet

I transcribed the “Google Drive structure” into a Google Spreadsheet for my own convenience.

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I thought about writing a Google Apps Script to automatically create shared drives and folders, but since it’s not a task that needs to be done frequently, I decided against it.

That’s all about implementing G Suite and wanting to organize the structure of Google Drive “Shared Drives” and “Folders” from the Gemba.