Cloud drives: import, sync & save

If your drawing sets live in a cloud drive, connect the account once and import files straight into your library — no download-and-reupload trip through your desktop. Imported files stay linked to the original, so your marked-up set can go back as a new version of the same file.

Connect a drive#

Go to Workspace settings → Integrations and click Connect on Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, SharePoint or Egnyte. You'll be sent through the provider's own sign-in and consent screen and returned to Notch. Egnyte asks for your company's domain first — see Connecting Egnyte. Procore is coming soon — see Connecting Procore.

Connections are personal: an imported file comes through your authorized account, and only you can browse or import through your connection. Any workspace member can connect their own. The apps connect the same way, from Settings → Integrations.

Import files#

Click Import in the library (or pick a drive in the add-documents window):

• Google Drive opens Google's own file picker — you choose the files, and Notch only ever sees what you picked.
• Dropbox, Box, OneDrive and Egnyte open a folder browser inside Notch. SharePoint lets you walk sites and document libraries. Tick the files you want, across folders and drives, then import.

Imported files land in your library like any upload: previews generate, and you can file them into projects, mark them up, and share them.

Send your markups back#

A linked document shows its drive on the library card, and the cloud icon in the editor header shows where it stands. Open that icon to:

• Sync — save your marked-up drawing onto the same file as a new version. The drive keeps every earlier version, so nothing is overwritten.
• Update — when someone changed the file in the drive, bring the new version in. Your markups carry forward.
• Upload to a drive — save a drawing that started in Notch into a folder you pick. From then on it's linked, and later changes sync as new versions.

The same sync actions are in the document's ⋯ menu in the library, along with Unlink. Syncing is always something you click — importing on its own never changes anything in the drive.

Limits#

• PDFs, images, and scans — PDFs import directly; images and scanned drawings (PNG, JPG, TIFF, and more) convert to PDF automatically.
• Up to 250 MB per file.
• Files import one at a time; a multi-file selection runs through the queue automatically.

Disconnecting#

Remove a connection any time from Workspace settings → Integrations. Documents you already imported stay in the library — disconnecting only stops future imports and syncs through that account.