Tech Double Shot!
TWO TECH IDEAS TO START OFF YOUR WEEK
Feb 9th, 2016 - The Email Issue
It's the Monday morning after the Super Bowl, so there's a good chance that right now you're dreading looking through your email. To help you get a better handle on your inbox, here are a few quick tips.
Shot 1: "Undo Send" in Gmail
Oh @#$%! I did NOT mean to send that!
For years, Gmail has had a hidden "Undo Send" feature, but for a little while now, that feature has been an official feature. See more info here.
To add "Undo Send", all you need to do is:
- Click the Cog for "Setting" in the upper right corner of your Gmail account.
- Scroll down about halfway on the "General" tab in Settings.
- Check "Enable Undo Send", then click "Save Changes"
SHOT 2: The Quest for A Saner Inbox
Clean Up Your Inbox
Do you already have tens, hundreds, thousands of unread messages? Are you striving for inbox zero?
Filtering the Incoming Messages
A great tip for this is to make careful use of Gmail's options for filters and tags. If you aren't already familiar with Gmails filtering options, check out this help page for using filters in Gmail.
Schedule Emails and Reminders with Boomerang
With a cleaned-out inbox and filters helping in your defense from incoming messages, the last thing left is to better manage the messages you need to keep and the ones you need to send.
- Scheduling an outgoing email to send at a later point in time
- Scheduling an incoming email to return later (like a snooze button for your inbox)
To get started, just click this link to Boomerang for Gmail and follow the instructions there.
You can even use Boomerang to send out a newsletter at 5:30AM so everyone will think you are hard at work when you're really still snoozing away...