Any recordsdata you may have saved in OneDrive or different cloud providers are in all probability organized by file and title so you recognize the place they’re. But within the office, all bets are off. A brand new OneDrive for the online UI characteristic helps remedy that downside.

OneDrive’s new characteristic means that you can manage recordsdata by individuals, not simply file title. You also can manage them by assembly, too—even upcoming conferences that haven’t occurred but. Microsoft added this new UI refresh in 2023, however said this week that buyers will see it as properly by the tip of February 2024. (This replace applies to the OneDrive app for Windows, not File Explorer.)

Those are two strong enhancements to the OneDrive UI. If you’re the kind of one that can mentally categorize recordsdata throughout a number of workgroups, good for you. Sometimes meaning navigating by way of threads and chat rooms to seek out the related file, whether or not they’ve ben bookmarked or pinned or not. What OneDrive is proposing is solely skipping all that.

Perhaps you’re speculated to be working with a coworker or two on a particular proposal—which can have been shunted off into separate drafts. OneDrive’s new Meetings view will routinely manage these recordsdata, whether or not or not it’s within the context of a particular previous or upcoming assembly, or simply the coworker(s) which might be concerned.

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Note that OneDrive isn’t transferring away from its conventional file-first group scheme—if you wish to manage your shared and private recordsdata like that, you’ll be able to. OneDrive can also be including filtering by file kind and little touches like the power to color-code your folders, too. Naturally, you’ll be capable to filter by file kind as properly.

Microsoft has additionally tweaked the “add new” button, to make it create a brand new Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote or Forms doc and supply the choice to add it to OneDrive. Combining that performance could also be slightly complicated.

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Microsoft additionally plans to make use of AI to make extra file suggestions “coming soon” as a part of the “For You” part of the OneDrive residence web page. Though AI will get all of the headlines today, it actually appears like organizing recordsdata by individual and assembly is properly on its method to serving to you discover what you want. (Maybe Projects might be the subsequent addition?) OneDrive’s new schema looks as if a wise addition already.

This story has been up to date on Feb. 1, 2024 to notice that these new adjustments are being provided to shoppers, in addition to colleges and companies.