Connect Wave to Google Docs
Turn any Wave session into a formatted Google Doc in your Drive — and get the one consent checkbox right so it keeps working.
Connect your Google account and Wave can drop any session into your Drive as a real Google Doc — title, summary, action items, and an optional speaker transcript, all properly formatted.
Google shows Drive access as an optional checkbox on its consent screen. Wave can't create documents without it, so you must check the box that lets Wave see and manage its files in Google Drive. Leaving it unchecked is the single most common reason exports and auto-share stop working.
Connect your Google account
You'll land on Connected to Google Docs — "Wave can export your sessions to a Google Doc in your Drive."
If the box is left unchecked, the connection is refused on the spot. Mobile shows Google Drive access needed with the exact fix: "Google Drive access wasn't granted. Please reconnect and check the box allowing Wave to see and manage its files in Google Drive." Run the connect again and tick the box.
What Wave creates
Each export makes a new Google Doc named after the session with - Wave Summary on the end. It contains the title, the summary, your action items, and — if the transcript option is on — the speaker-labelled, timestamped transcript.
Docs land in the root of My Drive. There's no folder picker; move or file them in Drive afterwards if you like.
Send a session
By hand. From a session's Share and Export sheet, tap Export to Google Docs. Wave confirms with "Your document has been created in Google Docs" and offers Open in Browser. On the web the doc opens in a new tab on its own; on desktop it opens in your default browser.
Automatically. Turn on Auto-share to Google Docs, either on the Google Docs settings page or on the Auto-share screen. Unattended exports need the refresh token Wave stores at connect time, which is another reason to complete the consent screen properly.
Disconnect and reconnect
Tap Disconnect from Google Docs on the mobile settings page. That clears Wave's tokens, switches Google Docs auto-share off, and signs the local Google session out so your next connect can mint a fresh token.
To reconnect, run Connect with Google again — and tick the Drive box.
Common failures
- Google Drive access needed — the Drive checkbox was skipped. Reconnect and tick it.
- Google Docs Connection Expired on the web — Wave sends you back to Google sign-in and resumes the export after you approve.
- A push saying "Reconnect Google Docs" — your connection died while auto-share was on. Tapping it opens the Google Docs settings page. Wave sends this at most once every three days, and leaves auto-share on so it resumes by itself after you reconnect.
- A push saying "Wave needs Google Drive access" — the connection is alive but the Drive permission is missing, so nothing has been saving. Reconnect with the box checked.
- Nothing arrives, no error — check that the Google account you connected is the one whose Drive you're looking at.
Connecting Google Docs is separate from connecting Google Calendar. Doing one does not do the other.
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