Files
The Files studio lets you mount local folders and connected sources — like your Google Drive — and search and read across them from inside Zimac. Point the team at a folder and "find the onboarding doc" or "what do my files say about X" is answered from the real files, read-only.
Your files, searchable in place. Nothing is copied into memory unless you choose to import it — a mount is a live, read-only window onto a folder you own, so the team can search names and full text and quote a file back without moving or changing anything.
▢ Mount a folder
Connect a local folder or Drive as a searchable, read-only source.
▢ Search across
Find files by name or full text across everything you mounted.
▢ Read & quote
Open a matching file in full so the team can quote it accurately.
▢ Read-only
A live window onto your files — nothing is moved, changed or imported.
What it is#
Files is the studio for the documents you keep on disk. You mount a folder — a local directory, or a connected source like Google Drive — and it becomes a read-only source the team can search and read across. It answers "look through my files for X" without you copying anything into the app: the mount stays a live view of the folder as it is.
Searching your files#
Search a mounted folder by keyword and the studio matches file names and full text, preferring files that hit every keyword and falling back to the best partial matches. Each hit comes back with a snippet and a handle you can open — so "find the Q3 plan" surfaces the right file, not a guess.
Reading a file#
Open one file in full and the team reads it fresh from disk, so it can review and quote it accurately rather than summarising from a title. Results render as live, clickable hits you can open yourself — the studio shows the files, you pick the one to read.
Drive & imports#
One nuance worth knowing: native Google Docs, Sheets and Slides match by title (Drive stores only a link locally, not their text) and come back as a link to open; Office (.docx) and PDF files are full-text searchable. And mounting is distinct from importing — a mount searches files where they live; an import funnels a folder into memory. Use a mount to look things up; use import when you want the team to remember a body of documents.