Wednesday, May 4, 2016

GMail, Email Clients, Cloud Tools, Google Keep / Text Editors and Finding the best experiences for Android and Windows:: Musings of a Remote Developer

GMail, Email Clients, Cloud Tools, Google Keep / Text Editors and Finding the best experiences for Android and Windows:: Musings of a Remote Developer

Here is a list of some issues and resolutions I came across the past few days, especially as related to remote work, 

1.    GMail Conversation Read most recent first

                                Fix by turning Conversation View OFF: See Here: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/google-in-the-enterprise/quick-tip-change-the-conversation-view-in-gmail/

2.          GTasks change accounts:

                                3 Ways I found
                                1. Get Google Tasks App from Extension Store, then U can specify the Google Account (kind of a hack)
                                2. Hack: I think the easiest way in Chrome is to open an Incognito Window (via the "three-lines" button top right), and log in to the other account in that window.
                                This sucks bcuz incognito tab cant mix with normal tabs (uggh)
                                3. BEST way I found, USE Taco, then u can synch tasks across multiple platforms, so I started out with 1 problem and found a big solution to that and many other task related stuff, now I just use Taco!
                                Get it hire: https://tacoapp.com/tasks
                                Review here: http://project-management.com/tacoapp-software-review/

3. Google Keep Tips and Hacks:

                                Searching text in Keep?
                                                Google Keep search text and highlight found word
                                                Use Chrome Ctrl-F, open Keep in https://keep.google.com/ then Open a note then Ctrl - F (it doesn’t work in offline though)
                                Download voice recordings: Open Keep in a desktop browser, click a note, mouse over the voice recording and click “Download”.
                                Use Google Keep as a shared clipboard. Copy text or a link into a note on your PC, open it on your Android phone.
                                You don’t want Google Keep as a separate tab in your browser, there is a quick fix. You can turn Keep into its own Panel with an extension. download Panel View for Keep
                                Keyboard Shortcuts! -> http://googlesystem.blogspot.in/2013/07/google-keep-tips.html
                                                22. Keyboard shortcuts:
                                               
                                                j/k - navigate to the next/previous note
                                                n/p - same as j/k, but also useful for navigating between list items
                                                c - compose a new note
                                                / - use the search feature
                                                e - archive selected note
                                                # - delete selected note
                                                o - open selected note
                                                Enter - edit selected note
                                                Ctrl+g - toggle between list and grid view
                                                Esc - finish editing a note.
                                 
               

4. Outlook Sent Item missing : 

When replying in Outlook for GMail Account that is linked to Office 365, then Sent Item is gone, this became a driver for me to re-org my Windows and Android Email Clients, instead of using Outlook and Gmail for everything with Pop3/SMTP Accounts, I  decided to have Gmail manage Google email / Outlook manage Off365 on Android and use Outlook Accounts on Windows, This also led me to CloudMagic, Im trying out now….
                                OutlookSent Item Issue:
                               
                                Instead of trying to wrangle the Gmail Account to work when in Outlook, I used for :
                               
                                Windows
                                                Use Outlook for Gmail/Office 365 as separate Accounts n Outlook
                                Andorid:
                                                Gmail and Outlook apps
                                                OR
                                                CloudMagic....
                                               


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