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Google Sync

A personal automation tool that keeps my own Google Workspace data in order — so the contacts, notes and figures I collect while working end up in the right place instead of scattered across a dozen files.

What it does

Google Sync is a private tool I built for my own use. It acts on my own Google Account, at my own instruction, to do the small repetitive jobs I would otherwise do by hand:

Contacts — when I meet someone, it checks whether they are already in my contacts, then creates or updates their entry with the details I have, and files them under one of my existing labels.
Spreadsheets — appends to the tracking sheets I keep, rather than my retyping the same rows.
Documents and presentations — drafts and updates my own working documents.
Drive — saves what those jobs produce back to my own Drive. It can only see files it created itself, not the rest of my Drive.

What data it accesses

Google Sync connects to Google Contacts, Sheets, Docs, Slides and Drive through Google’s own APIs, on a single Google Account: mine. The privacy policy lists each permission it requests and what each one is for.

It has no access to Gmail.

Who it’s for

This is a single-user tool. It is not a product, there are no accounts to sign up for, and it is not offered to the public. The only Google Account it connects to is my own.

Where the data goes

Nowhere but between Google and me. The hosted part runs as a small server-side function on Vercel that only I can call; data passes through it just long enough to answer a single request and is then discarded. There is no database and nothing is stored at rest. The privacy policy sets this out in full.