The Marble Jar Channel

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll show you my quick shortcut in adding a contact to Google Contacts using my iPhone.  I use Google Contacts as my main contacts database.  It is not very glitzy.  Google doesn’t spend much time updating it or making it pretty, but it  meets all of my criteria: It has all of the fields I need. I can access if from any internet connected device. It obviously works well with the Google products that I use like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Maps. And since I have it set as my default contact database in my iPhone and iPad, it integrates seamlessly with my iOS apps like Mail. I love what you can do with databases, but I HATE having to put data in them.  My memory is terrible, but it is particularly bad with remembering numbers.  So, I find myself flipping back and forth between screens multiple times to populate each piece of the address, city/st...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video I’ll share my secret to always remembering to follow up on emails. How many times has this happened to you?  You ask someone a question over email, you mentally cross it off your list, and then you totally forget to follow up to actually get the answer to the question?  Then, a couple of weeks later you’re like “Crap!  Did I ever hear back from so and so on that??” Okay — I’m super forgetful, so this used to happen to me all the time. I tend to remember when a question is urgent, but when I don’t need the answer right away — poof, it leaves my head as soon as the email leaves my outbox.  Some people are fantastic and quick at email responses, some are terrible, and some are pretty good some of the time. The thing is, YOU are the one that needs the answer to the question, so you can’t just assume you’ll get a response eventually.  It’s up to you to follow up....