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 three ways I use the iPad search function. I use my iPad A LOT.  I did an app purge this week and started out with 264 apps — I kid you not. I’m always looking for more efficient ways to get things done on my iPad, so let me show you 3 ways the iPad search function is indispensable to me.  First of all, here’s what I’m talking about when I refer to the Search function. You get here by swiping down on the home screen. So, the first way i use this is to 1 - Search for Apps As i said, i have too many apps to keep track of.  I organize some of them by folder — and my organizing logic makes total sense — or at least it did at one point, but i don’t always remember where I’ve put things.  I mean I had 264 apps, right?  As a result, I use this search bar to search for apps ALL THE TIME.  In fact, it’s so much faster than digging through folders or eve...