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7 must-do tips for spring cleaning your email inbox

We talked last week about tips for spring-cleaning your phone, and this week I’m taking a stab at my email. I’d never let my actual snail mail pile up in a massive overflow of unanswered bills and letters, but for some reason I let my email inbox become an...

How to “untab” your Gmail so you never miss an important email again

by Kate Etue | Tips and Tricks

Chances are good that you’re clicking through to this article because you don’t know what “tabbed gmails” even are. Right? Well, here’s the deal: Gmail has a “handy” organization tool that categorizes all your emails...

Our all-time favorite email organization trick | Out-Tech Your Kids Ep 23

by Cool Mom Staff | Out-Tech Your Kids podcast

Don’t go into 2021 with 43,891 emails! (I’m not kidding. That’s literally how many emails are in my inbox, currently). The simple trick we shared on our most recent Out-Tech Your Kids podcast episode has helped us start off every new year with inbox...

Inbox Zero trick: How to clean out your inbox on Gmail and start the year fresh. (Updated for 2021)

by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks

As someone with anywhere upwards of 10,000 emails in my inbox — many of them unread, to the dismay of my OCD friends — I am always looking for tips and tricks to help me manage my email. One of those is to start each new year with an absolutely clean...

The best way to sign-off on your emails. Hint: It’s not “best.”

by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks

Back a couple of years ago, Liz and I addressed our email pet peeves in one of our first Spawned podcast episodes. It was actually Episode 4, to be exact. Aw. Sniffle! Well, apparently, the debate about how to sign-off on your emails is back, except now, with actual...

Web coolness: The super blue blood moon, Zelda beer, Star Wars names, and more!

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Don’t forget that the super blue blood moon is coming January 31st! [Photo by Noah Silliman on Unsplash] Plus here are some meteor showers to look out for in...

Web coolness: Star Wars snowflakes, a super blue blood moon is coming, and more!

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Trying to avoid too much tech when school is unexpectedly out? Bookmark these screen-free snow day activities, like the Star Wars snowflakes from Anthony Herrera...

Inbox Pause: The new amazing new Gmail feature that can get you more work-life balance.

by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks

For ages now I’ve touted the wonderful benefits of Boomerang for Gmail to help me better manage my incoming and outgoing email, and it seems the folks at Google like the feature themselves. Because now Gmail has actually incorporated Boomerang’s technology...

Do you know these 3 handy iPhone email tricks?

by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks

We’re not huge fans of sending emails on the fly, even with the “Sent from our iPhone and talk-to-text hates us” warning at the bottom. But if we do, there are 3 handy iPhone email tricks we use to make them look as buttoned up as they when...

Is Unroll.me safe to use?

by Kristen Chase | Productivity Apps

In a recent New York Times article, one of our favorite organizational apps Unroll.me was mentioned as selling user data (specifically emails with Lyft receipts) to Uber, and not surprisingly people are worried, including us. We’ve been using this app for years...

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Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

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