Organize Email Attachments into Google Drive Folders by Company with Gmail & Sheets - n8n Workflow | Neura Market
Organize Email Attachments into Google Drive Folders by Company with Gmail & Sheets
# Automated Email Attachment Organizer
**Automatically process labeled emails with attachments into organized Google Drive folders**
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## Who Is This For?
- **Teams or Individuals** needing to:
- Automatically sort invoices, receipts, and files.
- Organize client documents by date.
- Verify sender emails against a whitelist.
- Timestamp files to avoid duplicate names.
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## What Does This Workflow Solve?
- **Manual Email Sorting**: Saves time by automating the organization of email attachments.
- **Disorganized Cloud Storage**: Ensures attachments are neatly stored in Google Drive folders.
- **Unverified Sender Issues**: Filters and validates emails using a whitelist.
- **Duplicate Filenames**: Uses timestamps to ensure every file name is unique.
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## Setup Guide
### 1. Pre-Requisites
- **Whitelist Sheet**: Make a copy of the [Example Whitelist Sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tz9BflstxVL18YG11Ny1eiDj3FcjvtZ619b_bHx8h4/copy)
- **Gmail Filter**: Create a filter in Gmail to label emails with attachments. **To Create a Gmail Filter:**
1. Open your Gmail Inbox.
2. Click the search bar and select **Show search options**.
3. Enter your criteria (e.g., type `has:attachment`).
4. Click **Create filter**.
5. Choose **Apply the label: Custom_Label** and save.
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### 2. Credentials Setup
Make sure your n8n instance is connected with:
- **Gmail Account**: (via OAuth2)
- **Google Drive Account**: (via OAuth2)
- **Google Sheets** (via OAuth2)
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### 3. Configure Your n8n Workflow Nodes
#### 1. Trigger and Email Retrieval
- **Gmail Trigger**: Setup check interval and filters for emails (i.e., emails labeled with `Custom_Label`)
#### 2. Whitelist Settings
- **Lookup in Sheets**: Searches for a row with the sender email. Configure this node to point to your whitelist spreadsheet containing two columns:
|email|company|
#### 3. File Storage Location
- Configure parent folder to create sub-folders and store files into in the **Create Company Folder** node *Parent Folder* dropdown
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## Final Steps
1. **Test Your Workflow**: Run the workflow to verify emails are processed and files are uploaded correctly.
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Happy Automating!
Platform
n8n
Category
File & Document Management
Price
Free
Creator
Ventsislav Minev
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googleSheets
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How to import this workflow into n8n
1Purchase or download the workflow to get the n8n workflow JSON file.
2In your n8n instance, open Workflows and choose "Import from File" (or paste the JSON with Ctrl+V on the canvas).
3Open each node marked with a credential warning and connect your own accounts and API keys.
4Run the workflow once manually to verify the data flow, then toggle it to Active.