In theory, storing your files in the cloud means you can access them from anywhere. But in practice, there’s often a complication: you’ll have to find them first.

Treev is a free Chrome extension which can search all your Google Drive, Dropbox, Trello or Box accounts from a single search bar.

You don’t have to remember where a particular file might be, it really doesn’t matter. If you need something, click the treev icon, start to type a name and matching files appear immediately. Click the right one – or press enter if it’s selected already – and that file opens in the appropriate service.

Matching files are displayed as you type

Treev can also be used as a launcher for your cloud apps. Type “b” as your first letter, say, and “Basecamp”, “Bitbucket”, “Buffer” and “Box” appear along with any files matched.

As a bonus, Gmail integration makes it much easier to attach files to a message. Click the treev icon in the Gmail Compose window, search for and select a cloud file as normal, and it’s immediately added as an attachment.

Treev really needs to support more services, but this is a good start, and the developer says more cloud tools will be added soon.