A Smoother Ride in Drive Part 1: Save to Google Drive Extension

Our next few posts will focus on how to improve your experience in Google Drive.  These are great tips to share with your students as well!

One of the struggles of working in the cloud, especially on a Chromebook, is storing your media files.  With the Save to Google Drive Extension, it is easy to save images, sound files, websites, and PDFs directly into Google Drive directly from a tab in Google Chrome.

Get the Save to Google Drive Extension from the Chrome Webstore here.  After adding to Chrome, it will automatically appear in your extensions bar.  It looks strikingly similar to the Google Docs Quick Create Extension, for those of you that have both.

After installing the extension be sure to change set your destination folder in Drive and change your options to save as either a Google Doc or image file (JPG or PNG).  Please see the screenshot below for directions.

You are now ready to use the extension!  If you are on a website that you would like to save, simply click on the extension and boom!  If you see an image that you would like to save, just right-click on the image and choose "Save Image to Google Drive".  Enjoy your new extension!