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How To Sync Contacts Between Two Gmail Accounts

It’s hard to get by these days with just one email address. If you want to sync your contacts between all your email accounts, it’s actually very easy to do with a free tool called Soocial. Here’s how.

23 February 2013

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Automatically Clean Up Gmail On A Schedule With This Script

Maintaining inbox zero and dealing with old emails takes work (for some, too much work!). This Google Apps script lightens the load a bit by automatically archiving or deleting old emails that are cluttering your inbox, based on a schedule you set.

22 February 2013

Communicate

Mailfred Temporarily Archives And Sets Reminders For Gmail Messages

Chrome: When you don’t take care of your emails as they come in, it’s easy to lose them in the clutter of your inbox. Mailfred is a simple Chrome extension that allows you to schedule reminders so you don’t forget to action your messages.

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Set Newsletters To Skip Gmail’s Inbox

A while back, Gmail introduced “Smart Labels” for bulk email, notifications, forums and social updates. You can’t edit these filters, but you can automatically archive matching messages, so those updates don’t fill up your inbox.

21 February 2013

Productivity

Open Compose Takes You Straight To Gmail’s New Email Window

Chrome: Your inbox gets distracting (unless you keep it clean), and sometimes you just want to send an email without seeing everything else requiring a response. Open Compose lets you click a button and compose a message in Gmail without distractions.

20 February 2013

Security

How Google Fought Off Spammers Trying To Break Into One Million Accounts

The spam-blocking technology in Gmail is fairly effective, but that doesn’t mean spammers and criminals don’t want to use Gmail to send dubious messages. A blog post from Google notes a dramatic increase in attempts to hijack individual accounts.

19 February 2013

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How I Went From 1000 Emails To Inbox Zero With Mailstrom

Inbox zero: it’s the impossible dream that gets further and further away as you let your emails pile up, but you don’t have to get stuck with the clutter. Thanks to an awesome web app called Mailstrom, I finally got my thousand-email inbox under control in an hour. Here’s how to do it.

16 February 2013

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Save Gmail Messages And Attachments To Google Drive With This Script

If you’re running out of space in Gmail (yes, some people do brush up against that 25GB limit), here’s a simple script that can help you free up inbox space by archiving emails to Google Drive. It’s also handy for saving emails and their attachments as PDFs.

12 February 2013

Productivity

Astrid Integrates With Your Gmail, Turns Your Email Into To-Dos

Chrome: Astid is your favourite to-do list manager, and now it integrates with your favourite email service. The Astrid Chrome extension now brings your to-dos into Gmail, and makes it simple to add any email as a to-do item on your list, or just manage your to-dos without ever leaving Gmail’s interface.

8 February 2013

Productivity

Mailbox Makes Getting To Inbox Zero Easy

iOS: Getting to inbox zero is one of those challenges many try and few accomplish. Even though the best email apps provide us with features to help, without a good methodology we can’t weed out the clutter. Mailbox integrates a fantastic process into its feature set to help clear out your Gmail inbox.

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