Category: Technology

1. Google Chrome Launcher is tool that will allow you to open Chrome apps like Flowdock from your taskbar. (Think start menu for google apps)

a. It may install when you install Chrome

b. If it doesn’t

c. Open Chrome

d. Sign On from the Control Menu in Chrome

e. If you weren’t asked and it still isn’t installed, go http://chrome.google.com/webstore/launcher

f. If App Launcher isn’t an option from there, then go to StartAll Programs Google Chrome

g. Right click App Launcher from there and select pin to taskbar

h. If you still aren’t able to find it go to http://chrome.google.com/webstore/launcher

i. It should install and allow you to pin it to the taskbar

I have a confession. Secretly…I’ve always been intrigued by the Chrome Book. There’s something about moving fully to the cloud. I’ve never pulled the trigger. Mainly, because I love my local storage. Probably comes from being born pre-90’s. The cool thing is, I don’t have to have the constant tug of war of what it would be like to move to a Chrome Book.

Why?

Because the combo of Google’s Genius and Windows 8 is amazing. Google was wise enough to create a “middle ground”. They have created an App Launcher (shown below) that if you install Chrome, you can utilize the same way you would launching an app on the Chrome Book.

That’s not all though!

There’s also an option to launch Chrome in Windows 8 mode, which gives you a full desktop version (start section shown below). Essentially it’s what you see when you start up your Chrome Book for the first time.

I plan to post setup instructions next week for those interested in using this type of feature. Until then, I’m interested to hear if anyone has made the switch to something like a Chrome Book or other cloud hosted device. Let me know how your experience has been.

We’re doing a series on Conversatio Morum  about making email productive and getting to inbox 0. This is the final post on this series. You can read more about those concepts here. You can see every post in the series here. Last week we talked about how to stay at inbox 0. I’ll say Continue reading “Inbox 0 – Part 4”

We’re doing a series on Conversatio Morum  about making email productive and getting to inbox 0. You can read more about those concepts here. You can see every post in the series here. Last week we got to Inbox 0. Continue reading “Inbox 0 – Part 3”

At Conversatio Morum, we’re posting a series on making email productive and getting to inbox 0. You can read more about those concepts here. You can see every post in the series here. So today we’re going to be starting on getting to Inbox 0. In my previous post I mentioned that my current email system is “way too complicated” and that it’s “seriously ridiculous”. I wasn’t lying. I don’t know what I was thinking in the original setup, but I’m sure it made sense at the time. To prove the ridiculousness, here’s a breakdown: Continue reading “Inbox 0 – Part 2”

Last week at Conversatio Morum we reviewed an app for your iPhone called Mailbox. You can read about it here. Part of what makes Mailbox such a great email app is that it’s informed by the concept of Inbox 0. If you’ve never heard this before, inbox 0 is the concept that your inbox catches things. Some things are actionable, some things aren’t. You delete or archive for reference the non actionable things. Actionable things are done , delegated, or deferred. In the process of getting things to done, delegated, deferred, deleted or archived for reference you remove those things from your inbox. Theoretically, if at the end of the day you’ve gotten through all the tasks you need to you’ll be at inbox 0. There’s actually an entire book on this you should read called Getting Things Done by David Allen. Here’s a flowchart from the book to help explain the Inbox 0 concept for you: Continue reading “Inbox 0 – Part 1”