Over the years I’ve played around with easy ways to collect and search information, but never really satisfied with the outcome. Last week I had the idea to try to use GMail as a journal, and so far it is working pretty well. Why GMail? I wanted something that was frictionless to use. What do…
Most email providers offer subaddresses (often times call plus aliases) allowing the user an almost infinite number of addresses. Subaddresses are part of the email protocol and were devised as a way to filter email. To use a sub address, you simply add +ALIAS between your username and the @ sign in your email. For example,…
There are times when you are using a Google Sheet, such as collecting information in a form, where you would like highlight the minimum and maximum cell in a column. Google Sheets offers conditional formatting, which gives you the ability to change the formatting of a cell based on the contents of the cell. For…
One complaint I hear about Google Docs is the difficulty in adding clipart to a document. Well, Openclipart to the rescue! This add on for Google Docs adds a sidebar to search clipart. To get the add-on, open a Google Doc and click on Add-ons -> Get Add-ons: In the search box, type openclipart: Then click on the…
Google held an online conference this past weekend and has now put up the footage of each of the presentations. There are keynotes from Tia Lendo, Michelle Obama, and LeVar Burton along with some very fascinating sessions. I’ve embedded a few of my favorites, but you’ll probably want to visit the website! (The first two…
Yesterday’s post was all about launching Chrome apps from the toolbar. But what if you want to start a new document in Google Drive from the toolbar? Sure, you can use AppJump to launch Docs, Slides, or Sheets, but then you’re still stuck hitting the + in the lower right to create the document. There are two…
Google has made it easier to start Chrome applications using the program launcher for the host operating system (Start Menu under Windows or on the OS X dock), but it feels cumbersome. That’s whereAppJump comes in. With AppJump, you can quickly access Chrome applications from the toolbar, without leaving Chrome. It also has the capability to…
There seems to be as many online text editors as there are stars in the sky, which can be helpful or a curse. Each has their strengths and weaknesses. Hemingway Editor strives to help you become a better writer. You can either write into the editor or copy and paste from another document. The Hemingway Editor…
Having copies of a list of students in your classroom can come in very handy, so I played around with Google Sheets and came up with Classroom Student Check List. The sheet gives you four separate lists that you can cut apart and use. New students To add students to the list, you don’t have…
From the “I didn’t know this would be so nice department” comes the humble clipboard manager. Most of the time the clipboard does it’s thing, copy/cut and then paste, and we are happy. But, what if I told you it can do more? Such as remember past items so you can reuse them again? That’s…