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.
My Documents: the search, filter, sort, and view-switch toolbar above a list of stored briefs, each carrying an Expired status and the date its stored copy lapsed.
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.
NOTE: This is a deletion, not an archive. If the only copy was the one BriefCatch was holding, it is gone. Choose a drive destination at upload for anything you need to keep.
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.