Productivity Portfolio
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Below is a list of various Google tutorials that we've done. These include step by step instructions on various products ranging from Google Sheets to Gmail. And in some cases, there may be screencasts.
Google also offers documentation for many of their products including Google Groups. These are public forums where you can ask a question that anyone can answer. You may also save your groups if you login in with a Google account.
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Keyboard shortcuts are a great way to enhance your productivity. The benefits are compounded the more you use a program like Gmail. The problem is learning them and committing them to memory. In the case of Gmail, there are quite a few and some don't seem intuitive to me. For example, why is the #
Learn More about How to Learn Gmail Shortcuts with TinyCards
Back in the old internet days, people rarely changed email addresses. Today is a different story with people changing jobs and having multiple email addresses. Sometimes email programs don’t want to let go of the old addresses and keep displaying them for us, which can present problems. This
Sometimes Gmail’s simplicity makes people think it is missing features. A case in point is distribution lists or group lists. Many people think that it’s not possible to create a group email in gmail. The truth is that you can create personal Gmail distribution lists using labels in Google Contacts.
Ever had the situation where you need to go back to a web page you visited but can’t recall the URL or site? This happened to me this week. I knew the site name, but not the specific page. My attempts to find it using the site’s search didn’t work well. I couldn’t recall the right words and got too
Learn More about Using Browser History to Find Elusive Pages
One bad habit I have is letting my Gmail inbox get too big. I guess this means I'm not an Inbox Zero expert. These accrued items tend to be non-urgent items that I haven’t flagged as a priority. Eventually, I reach that tipping point and want to mass delete Gmail items. There are many ways to delete
