Google Drive
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
4warn against
Nov 16, 2025first mention
Oct 29, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“or a shared Google Drive folder”
Caveats and dissent
“But Google Drive was always the worst part of Google Docs by far (imho).”
“Google has put a big-ass plus button and a "scan document" button right in the bottom-right corner of the app screen, which effectively prevents me from opening the file menu”
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“you will probably run into conflicts between keepass "safe save" and how google drive does file versioning”
“Google has no qualms about handing over data to US authorities.”
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All comments 13
“I have Note Everything save to Google Drive.”
“We use slack for messaging, Confluence, Wikimedia, and GDrive for documentation”
“But Google Drive was always the worst part of Google Docs by far (imho).”
“Google has put a big-ass plus button and a "scan document" button right in the bottom-right corner of the app screen, which effectively prevents me from opening the file menu”
“My personal Dropbox was replaced by Google Drive, and then by iCloud.”
“you will probably run into conflicts between keepass "safe save" and how google drive does file versioning”
“or a shared Google Drive folder”
“I just keep my private notes in my Google Drive”
“you could set up a "team admin" user on google drive”
“Google has no qualms about handing over data to US authorities.”
“Google Drive that I use to share my KeePass databases (no GDrive on Linux afaik)”
“You can probably get away with google drive+rclone+borg/restic/whatever, but it will be rather clunky.”
“I use google drive for most of my admin stuff and their client allows to mount the drive.”