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My Documents

The document library — uploading, connecting a drive, finding a brief, and what the status and expiry labels mean.

My Documents is the home of everything you have put through BriefCatch. It is both the place you start a review and the place you come back to for one you already ran.

What you see depends on your plan, your role, and which drives your organization has connected.

app.briefcatch.com/my-documents
The My Documents list showing several uploaded briefs, each with a Draft, Reviewed, or Expired status, a suggestion count, and how long the stored copy has left
My Documents: each row carries a state — Draft with its suggestion count, Reviewed when a review finished, and greyed-out Expired copies that must be uploaded again before they can be opened.

Getting a document in

There are two routes, and they behave differently afterwards.

Route Use it when What to know
Upload document The file is on your machine Accepts .docx and .pdf, up to 25 MB. BriefCatch asks what should happen to the file afterwards.
Add from a connected drive The file already lives in Google Drive or OneDrive If no drive is connected, the library offers Connect a drive first. See Integrations.

An older .doc file needs converting to .docx before it will upload.

The one choice worth reading: what happens to the file

Upload asks you to choose, because the answer decides whether the file still exists later.

  • Keep a private copy for a while — BriefCatch stores the file so you can reopen the results without re-uploading. You pick an Auto-delete after window. Longer windows are a paid-plan capability; if the option is greyed out, your plan does not include it.
  • Save to my Google Drive / OneDrive — a permanent copy in your own drive, managed by you.
  • Save to the organization drive — a permanent copy in your organization’s drive, in a folder you choose.

Why this matters: only the drive destinations produce a copy you control. The private copy is on a timer, and when that timer runs out the file is deleted rather than archived.

Choosing a destination opens a folder browser scoped to what you can reach: Personal, Organization, My Drive, or a Shared Drive. You have to open a folder to select it — a file cannot be a destination.

Finding things

The toolbar carries search, filters, sort, and a List view / Grid view switch.

Control What it filters on
Search File name
Scope Personal or Organization
Provider Which drive the file came from
File type Docs versus other files
Status Draft, Reviewed, Expired
Date, Name, Size Sort order

Active filters appear as removable chips, with Clear all to reset. Shared documents is a separate view for files other people in your organization shared with you.

If a connected drive has new files the library has not picked up, Sync drive documents refreshes it.

Reading a row

Column What it tells you
Status Draft (uploaded, not reviewed), Reviewed (analysis finished), or Expired (the stored copy is gone)
Suggestion count How many findings the review produced
Expiry “Expires in N days”, counting down to the auto-delete window you chose at upload

Selecting rows reveals bulk actions. Details opens a side panel with the document’s history, including previous review runs and, where available, author history.

Expiry, and what survives it

When a stored document expires, the file is deleted. A stub row can remain in the list with the name and timestamps, but the review itself does not survive: suggestions, verdicts, scores and version history are purged with the file. That is why an expired document cannot be opened — there is nothing left to open. Re-upload the source file to review it again.

When the library will not let you in

  • “You cannot review documents with your current plan” — the account’s license does not include document review. See Plans and licenses.
  • “Your trial has expired — upgrade to upload documents” — the trial ended. Existing documents stay readable and exportable; uploading and analyzing stop until the license is active again.
  • “This document is still being processed” — analysis has not finished. Wait rather than re-uploading; a duplicate upload starts a second, independent run.

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