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My ADHD Brain: Turn Cellular Voicemails into Emails and Texts with Google Voice

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Hi, everyone!  It's Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel. In today's video, I'll show you how to use Google Voice to turn your iPhone voicemails into emails or texts.  Has this ever happened to you?  You happen to open your phone app and realize that you have 6 voicemails you haven't listened to?  Some of these could be days old since you haven't been checking regularly.   If you've watched my overview video on the processes I use to cope with my ADHD brain, you'll know that I try to use Gmail to single stream all of the information that comes into my life.  So, that means getting voicemails into my email inbox. For my landline, I use a digital service that Verizon provides, but I needed to be more creative for my iPhone voicemails.  Essentially, what you are doing is replacing the indigenous iPhone voicemail service with Google Voice's service which is more feature rich. Frankly, I don't entirely understand all of the services that Go...

My ADHD Brain - Single Stream Email

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Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in this video I'll talk about using Gmail as a single stream funnel for the electronic information that enters my world.  This is part of a series on my ADHD brain and all of the systems I use to compensate for a lack of internal structure and organization. If you've watched the overview video of my organizational apps, you know that I use Gmail as the central funnel through which all electronic data enters my world. Kind of like having one single inbox to check and work through. I just wasn't keeping up well when I had four different inboxes to deal with. Let's walk through what that looks like for each kind of information: Landline voicemail - okay -- this is archaic and I know a bunch of people who never check their landline voice mail. But I have a couple of old school relatives in my life who would be none too pleased if I never responded to their urgent voicemails. Verizon is the provider ...