Computer and Drive
Your computer
Your own cloud computer: a Linux desktop with Chromium, files and a terminal, which you and the AI use.
Your own cloud computer: a Linux desktop with Chromium, files and a terminal, which you and the AI use.
Everyone gets their own computer in OneDrop: a Linux desktop in your browser, with Chromium, a file manager and a terminal. Use it yourself, or give the AI a task on it and watch it work: research on the web, fill in forms, collect information into a spreadsheet, tidy up files.
Open it with Computer in the sidebar. The first time, it takes a moment to start.
The desktop fills the space it’s shown in and resizes with your window. The dock at the bottom has:
| App | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| Chromium | Browsing. Your sign-ins, bookmarks and history are kept. |
| Files | Your Home: Desktop, Documents, Downloads (Chromium saves there) and Drive. |
| Terminal | A shell on your computer. |
Copy and paste work between the desktop and your own computer while the page has focus. On a Mac, ⌘ works as Ctrl on the desktop, so ⌘C, ⌘V and ⌘L do what you expect.
Your computer goes to sleep when you’re not using it, with everything as you left it, and wakes when you open it again.
Only you can open your computer. Other people in your organization, including its admins, can’t.
The chat beside the desktop works like a project’s chat, with the same agent and model picker. Ask for what you want done:
Find three direct flights from Boston to Lisbon in March under $500 and put them in a spreadsheet in my Drive.
The AI uses the desktop you’re watching. It drives Chromium page by page, takes screenshots to see the screen, and clicks and types when it has to. You can keep using the desktop while it works, and Stop it from the chat.
When a site needs you to sign in, enter a code or solve a captcha, the AI leaves the page open and asks you to do it on the desktop. It never types your passwords. Once you’ve signed in, Chromium remembers it.
Hide the chat with the button at the top left of the desktop to give the desktop the whole page.
What you keep in Drive (~/Drive on your computer) is stored by OneDrop and is the same from the web, your computer and your organization’s projects. See Drive.
Everything else in your Home stays on your computer. It’s kept when your computer sleeps or is updated, but it isn’t backed up: put what matters in Drive.
The Files and Shell tabs work as they do in a project, beside the desktop.
From the ⋯ menu at the top right:
Organization owners and admins can turn computers off in Settings → Organization → Computers. While they’re off, nobody in the organization sees Computer, and running computers go to sleep. Turning them back on gives everyone their computer as it was.
Leaving an organization deletes your computer there.