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Turn an answer into a Google Sheet or Doc

Ask for it by name and Torki creates the real file on your Drive, after you approve it.

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This one works on Free. "Connect Google Workspace" is listed in what a Free account gets and is a tick on every plan, so the account you create from this page can do every step below. Microsoft 365 is a separate entry in the Toolkit, and the plan comparison lists it from Lite up.

Torki can put a real file on your Google Drive from inside a chat — a spreadsheet with your columns filled in, or a document with your writing in it. It stops and asks before it writes, so nothing is sent to Google until you press a button. This is creation only: Torki makes new files, it does not touch the ones you already have.

How it works, step by step

1

Connect Google Workspace

Click Toolkit in the sidebar, stay on Connectors and select Google Workspace. Press Connect on either Google Sheets (Create and populate spreadsheets.) or Google Drive & Docs (Create files, Docs and folders in your Drive.) — the button reads Connecting… and Google's own consent screen opens for you to sign in and approve. Either one is enough for both sheets and docs, and both promise the same limit in their checklists: Only touches files Torki creates. Settings → Connectors still reaches the same connections.

2

Ask for it by name

In a normal chat, send a message that names the service and asks for the file — make me a Google Sheet tracking Q4 launch tasks with Date, Task, Owner, Status, or save this to Google Docs as 'Weekly Review'. Naming the service is what starts this; a request for a tracker or a table does not.

3

Allow the action

Torki stops before writing anything and puts an approval card in the thread: the Google logo, the action, and Wants to run this in Google Workspace. For a sheet the action reads Create spreadsheet over the line create the Google Sheet “Q4 Launch Tracker”; for a doc it reads Save to Google Docs over save “Weekly Review” to Google Docs. Press Allow once, or Always allow to stop being asked for this action — or turn it down with Decline, which costs you nothing because nothing has run yet.

4

Open the file on your Drive

The approval card is replaced by one titled Google Sheets — Q4 Launch Tracker or Google Docs — Weekly Review, with an Open in Sheets or Open in Docs button that opens the real file in a new tab. Torki creates the sheet and fills in your columns, and writes doc content in as native formatting — Heading 1 through Heading 6, bold and italic, bulleted and numbered lists, and real table grids rather than raw markdown. The frame inside the card cannot use your Google session, so it is not a preview of your file: the button is the way in.

5

Disconnect when you want to

Go back to the Toolkit and open Google Workspace. The pill at the top counts the services you have connected — 1 of 3 connected with one — and each connected service carries its own Disconnect in place of Connect. Press it on the service you connected: a dialog titled Disconnect Google Sheets? asks first, over the line Torki deletes its stored token for this service and loses access. You can reconnect anytime. The other Google services keep their own connections.

Before you start

The things people hit on their first try, so you do not have to find them the hard way.

  • It creates files, it does not open them

    Torki makes new sheets and docs. It cannot open, read or edit a sheet or doc you already have, and when it searches your Drive it finds only the files it created itself — the permission it asks Google for covers nothing else. There is no way yet to point it at a file you already had, so treat this as creation only.

  • The words are the trigger

    Your message has to name it — Google Sheet or spreadsheet, or Google Doc / Google Docs — and ask for the file to be made or saved there. Make me a tracker with Date, Task, Owner, Status, put this in a table and write me a memo create nothing, deliberately, so asking for a comparison table never puts a file on your Drive. Only the message you are sending right now is checked, so naming the service a few turns earlier does not carry forward.

  • Normal chat, one file per message

    With the Canvas or Research tool selected in the composer, or on a turn that makes an image, the request is ignored: no approval card and no file. And a single message creates a single file, so a sheet and a doc take two messages.

  • Check that the content landed

    The file is created first and your content written into it afterwards, and the second part is best-effort. You can end up with the sheet or the doc on your Drive and the contents missing, so open it once from the card and look.

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