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Who Has Access to Your Google Account? A 5-Minute Linked Apps Security Checkup

Quick question: do you know which apps connect to your Google Account right now? Most people don’t. I didn’t either, until I started prepping for a big inbox merge. This post walks you through one handy Google page that shows every connected app in about five minutes, plus what to do with what you find. […]

How to Help When A Friend’s Email Gets Hacked

Here’s the Exact Attack That Did It (And What to Do) A real incident, fully documented — including the phishing email, the attack chain, and every step I took to report it. Last month, a friend of mine received a professional-looking email. It appeared to come from someone in her industry — a […]

How to Spot a Sophisticated Phishing Scam in Gmail (Even If It Looks Legit) 🚨

This morning I received an email that looked incredibly real. It landed right in my Gmail inbox (not the Promotions tab), used a verified domain, and appeared to be a legitimate recruitment message from “Meta AI“. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t. It was a phishing scam – and a good one. Why This Phishing Email Was […]

How to Delete Emails with a Simple Swipe in the Gmail App

Delete Emails with a Simple Swipe in the Gmail App Do you use the Gmail app? Have you ever wished you could just delete an email directly from the main screen instead of archiving it? If you’re tired of swiping emails into oblivion (aka the Archive folder) when you really want to send them straight […]

How to Create a Shared Email Template Database in Google Docs (Better Than Gmail Reply Templates)

Replace Gmail Email Reply Templates with Google Docs (so you can Share an Email Template Database with your team)! It’s no secret that Gmail’s built-in email reply templates are… only ok. Let’s be real: they’re clunky, you can’t search or update them easily, and they’re tied to only one email account. 👎🏼 I’m here with […]

How to Disable Your Gmail Spam Filter (+ why on earth to do that)

I get a DEEP sense of satisfaction reporting spammy emails as spam, so you’ll be surprised to hear that I have disabled the spam filter on a couple of my Gmail accounts. It all comes down to WHY I did it – which is a very easy explanation: I have a couple of Gmail accounts […]

Set Your Gmail Spam Folder to Show in the Sidebar Only When There’s Spam (in only 4 clicks)

How many emails are in your Spam folder? Most importantly – are you regularly checking what’s in that spam folder? I’d hate for you to miss real emails! Many people don’t see their spam folder because it hides out-of-sight / out-of-mind “below the fold” in the left column. I’m here with a 4-clicks-setting-change that will […]

Running out of storage in your Google Account? Find out what’s taking up space and what your options are for Gmail or Workspace.

I got a panicked message from a client the other day that her Gmail account was warning her that she was out of space and would soon stop receiving email. If you’ve ever had this happen, or have been watching the storage space freak-out-o-meter creeping towards 100%, you have some really simple options. Data storage […]

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