Quicktion

Connect Google Drive

A Google Drive destination saves each email into your Drive as a small folder: the message rendered to a PDF, the original HTML as a fallback, and every attachment that came with it.

Unlike the other destination types, there's nothing to map. A Drive destination is a folder plus a rule for naming subfolders.

Connect Your Google Account

  1. Sign in to your Quicktion dashboard at quicktion.io.
  2. Click Connect Google.
  3. Choose your Google account and click Allow.

If you already connected Google for a Google Sheets destination, you're set. The same connection covers both, and no new authorization screen appears.

The Drive permission Quicktion asks for covers files it creates and folders you explicitly pick. It can't browse the rest of your Drive.

Create a Drive Destination

  1. Click New Destination.
  2. Select your Google connection, then choose Google Drive rather than Google Sheets.
  3. Pick where emails should go:
    • Choose a folder opens Google's picker so you can select any existing folder in your Drive.
    • Create one for me makes a new folder named Quicktion — {destination name}.
  4. Set the folder name pattern, or keep the default.
  5. Name the destination and click Create.

You'll get a forwarding address like abc123@in.quicktion.io. Copy it.

The Folder Name Pattern

Every saved email gets its own subfolder inside the destination folder. The pattern decides what those subfolders are called.

The default is {date}_{subject}, which produces folders like 2026-08-12_Invoice from Stripe. Four tokens are available:

  • {date} -- the email's date as YYYY-MM-DD, in UTC
  • {subject} -- the subject line, trimmed to 80 characters
  • {sender} -- the sender's name, or the part of their address before the @ when there's no name
  • {domain} -- the sender's email domain, like stripe.com

Mix them with any text you like. {domain}_{date}_{subject} groups everything from one company together in an alphabetical listing, for instance. Slashes aren't allowed in Drive folder names, so any slash in the pattern or the subject becomes a dash.

A few rules worth knowing. The whole folder name is capped at 150 characters. An email with no subject gets no subject. Two emails with the same subject on the same day produce two folders with the same name, which Drive allows and Quicktion doesn't try to disambiguate.

You can change the pattern any time from the destination page. Emails already saved keep their original names.

What Lands in Drive

Client Invoices/
  2026-08-12_Invoice from Stripe/
    email.pdf
    email.html
    invoice-8842.pdf

email.pdf is the message with a header block (from, to, date, subject) above the body. Remote images are downloaded and embedded, so the PDF still renders correctly long after the sender's image server goes away. On the free plan, a small "Saved with Quicktion" line appears at the bottom.

email.html is the prepared HTML. Some marketing emails have layouts too elaborate to render perfectly as a PDF, so the original is always kept next to it. Open it in a browser to see the message as it was sent.

Attachments keep their original filenames. Inline images such as signature logos and tracking pixels appear inside the PDF but aren't saved as separate files, which keeps folders readable.

Saving from the Gmail Add-on

The Gmail add-on can create Drive destinations too. Because the sidebar card has no room for a folder picker, it always creates a folder for you, named Quicktion — {destination name}, and uses the default {date}_{subject} pattern.

To point a destination at a different folder or change its pattern, open it in the dashboard. The add-on links you there.

Test It

Forward one email to your new address, ideally one with an attachment, and check the folder ten seconds later. If the PDF looks right, you're ready to set up forwarding rules so matching emails save themselves.

Good to Know

  • My Drive only. Shared Drives aren't supported yet. You can share the destination folder with your team using Drive's normal sharing settings.
  • No backfill. Emails are saved from the moment you forward them or click save, not retroactively.
  • No AI processing. AI Email Intelligence doesn't apply to Drive destinations. The PDF is the email as it arrived.
  • Storage counts against Drive. PDFs and attachments use your Google account's storage quota like any other file.

Troubleshooting

If the authorization window doesn't open, check that your browser isn't blocking pop-ups for quicktion.io.

If emails aren't arriving, or a destination has been paused, see Google Drive connection issues.

For a full walkthrough including forwarding rules and the Gmail add-on, see Save Emails to Google Drive.

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