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Did you know that you can set your work hours in your Google Calendar?  This will notify people if they are inviting you to a meeting outside your working hours.  You have total flexibility on which days AND your available hours for each individual day when setting this up - so as long as they are consistent on the day of the week you still should be able to use this.  This will also show you where to turn this off in case that is your preference.  One note before I show you how to do this - Working Hours is a global setting, so it is the same for all your calendars.  You can not set individual working hours for each calendar you have.  :-) (Here is a video on How to Set Your Working Hours if you prefer.) To set your working hours: Go to your calendar settings - Once the settings are displayed, look for Working Hours in the left-hand menu - When displayed you can: Enable/disable this feature at the checkbox Toggle on/off which days yo...

With Google Calendar, you can set notifications to the calendar which will be assigned to every event you create as part of that calendar, OR you can set notifications for a specific event. This gives you total flexibility over the notifications you receive, yet saves you time by being able to set them by the calendar. Today we are going to explore how to add a notification for a specific, single event.  Tomorrow we will look at setting notifications for all events on a specific calendar. (Here is a video on how to add notifications to a single event if you prefer.) First, either create the event, or open an existing event and select to edit it.  You will need to be on the full detail page for the event.  Look about half way down the left side, and you will see an option to Add notification - When you click on that, a default notification appears (you can see it added a third to my 2 existing notifications) - With each notification you have the option of ...

Nudges are a feature that utilize the AI to tag messages that may need action - either by you or by the person you sent it to.  Some people find it a bit creepy; others see it as an invasion of privacy (it's reading your email to know if it needs to nudge you).  It is an easy feature to turn on and/or off. If you are a person that keeps a lot of email in your Inbox, however, it may be worth trying it out to not miss some that need a reply... To turn nudges on or off, go to the email settings: There are 2 options for nudges - reminders if you may have missed something, or reminders if someone hasn't replied: If you have it turned on, emails the AI has tagged as needing a reply will be appended with a message that tells you when it was received, and asking if you want to Reply.  It will also be moved up into the Unread section if you have your inbox divided: If you have it turned on, emails the AI has tagged as sent by you and requesting a response will ...

Did you know you can "undo" sending an email?  It used to be what was called a lab, but now it is a built in feature.  So for those times you forget an important piece of the email, and realize it right after you send it...OR those times you respond to an email with a bit more emotion than you probably should...this feature can help you out.  How does it undo a sent mail?  It really doesn't - it actually puts the email in a queue to send, with a timer.  After that time is up, it is sent. Once that happens, there is no getting it back ;-) The feature is automatically turned on in the updated Mail.  To change the length of time you can "undo" a message, first go to the Settings (found be clicking on the Gear in the upper right corner) - Then look for Undo Send - Click on the dropdown and set it to the time you prefer - Once you set it, every time you send an email the following message will appear in the bottom left for the length of time yo...