Show HN: Paper Tray – dramatically better file organization for Google Drive
affine_variety Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Hi HN,
I'm a solo founder working on a project that uses AI to help with finding files in Google Drive.
The Problem: With Google Docs and Sheets, it's easy to make documents but very hard to find them again unless you organize them manually, which takes time.
This is a big problem for startups, who often use Google Docs for the convenience but struggle with information management. It leads to a lot of time wasted searching for documents and a lack of clarity.
The Solution: Paper Tray uses AI to organize Drive files automatically. It 'tags' each file so you can then use a filter interface to find them.
By default, it tags by the type of document (meeting notes, plan, pitch deck etc), the topic of the document, and the department it belongs to (product, engineering, sales etc).
The result is that it takes just a few seconds to find most of your documents, in an intuitive and satisfying way.
You can add your files easily with a Chrome Extension that adds a button to the header of Google Docs and Sheets. Click this button to add the file and manage the tags.
Business model: a 7-day free trial followed by monthly/annual subscription, currently priced at $12/mo, or $9/mo with an annual plan.