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Most people don't know Gmail has quietly rolled out three features that make managing your inbox significantly easier.
You can now change your Gmail address without losing your old one. You can unsubscribe from every newsletter clutter your inbox from a single dashboard. And you can track all your packages directly inside Gmail, no extra tabs, no extra apps.
For anyone who works out of their inbox, these aren't minor updates. They're real time-savers. I wrote a full breakdown with step-by-step instructions. Check it out at the link below and share it with a colleague who lives in their inbox.
Globally, approximately 392.5 billion emails are sent and received every day. This staggering volume equates to roughly 143 trillion emails sent every year. With over 4.7 billion users worldwide, this pace means more than 4.5 million messages are transmitted every single second.
If you are a band enthusiast…
If you played in the band during your school days or have a family member who participates in the band, I think you’ll enjoy this podcast episode.
My friend, Dr. David Gregory, appears as a guest on the “Band Director Bootcamp” podcast. The title of the segment is "Students as Teachers: The Life Lessons We Learn from the Kids in Our Bands." During the podcast, you’ll hear stories that may remind you of your own involvement with school bands. David also talks about his new book.
NotebookLM name change and new things
Google has renamed NotebookLM. It's now called “Gemini Notebook.”
Aside from the name change, this wonderful tool recently received a major update. The updates include fully editable PowerPoint decks, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, and Word docs, generated from your own data and research.
If you have been using NotebookLM for a while, this video will help you take your use to a new level. If NotebookLM, now Gemini Notebook, is new to you is new to you, I hope this video whets your appetite. You'll find plenty of tutorials on YouTube that start at the very beginning.
In this video, you'll see exactly what's changed inside and how to create attractive, on-brand documents and sharper research.
If you are fairly new to AI, this tool is very different from ChatGPT, as you will see, and is a huge timesaver for those times you need to examine and improve your own documents.
Google Lens Revisited
I've been a big fan of Google Lens for quite a while. I brought you this article almost five years ago, which talks about how to use Google Lens.
Two years ago, I talked to you about how to use Google Lens to turn handwriting into editable digital text.
One year ago, we explored Google Lens Live.
Last week, I ran across an interesting article that talked about some practical uses for Google Lens. It's called "I didn't realize Google Lens could do all these — it replaced 5 apps on my phone."
Upcoming PLU
Last chance for this session of Get Organized Digitally! We start August 1.
This course is geared to Alabama School Administrators, but it is open to anyone.
Additional Resources
Evernote Made Easy (updated to include Evernote 11). So much about Evernote has changed in just the last couple of years. This ebook brings you up to date. In a digital world where information is power, making organizing your information easy is huge.
Maybe Google Drive is More Your Style. Is Google Drive the place where you store your information? If so, I have an ebook for you. I've taken what I know about developing a system for digital notes and applied it to Google Drive.
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