The Marble Jar Channel

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today's video, I'll share how I deal with personal and work calendars. I recently started a new job at a place that used Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook.  Since every other place I've worked has used Google Suite, it has taken me some time to determine how to manage my work and home calendars with this new job. Just to give you a lay of the land, up until now I have had essentially two calendars -- my family calendar that all of the members of my family can view and write to and my personal calendar which my family members can also view, but they usually keep turned off since the appointments are when they are at work or school.  And that is usually how I determine where appointments go -- if it happens on evenings and weekends, it goes on the family calendar -- even if I'm the only person affected.  That way, everyone can see that I'm busy and what I'm doing.  If the event happens ...

Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll show you how I use the html mail codes for the iPhone (and iPad) to send regular reminder emails for client sessions from my mobile devices. In my last video, I showed how to send regular client session reminder emails using Gmail's templates.  Unfortunately, that all has to be done from a browser since templates aren't a feature in the mobile version of Gmail.  So, I figured out how to do this from the mail app on the iPhone.  It takes some doing to set it all up, but after that I actually find it easier and faster than using Gmail templates.  So, basically, I'm taking advantage of 2 things: 1) the "mailto" code that can be inserted into any html on a website that generates an email message when you click on the link.  Here's an example of a "mailto" code on a website.  Push it and you bring up a new email in your mail client.  The other thing I'm ...

Hi, everyone. This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today's video, I'll show you how I send email notifications or the same email text multiple times using Gmail templates. The non-profit counseling center that I used to work for did not have a system that sends automatic email reminders to clients for upcoming sessions.   As a therapist, I like to give people a heads up since it is helpful to know in advance if someone needs to cancel.  And, since we have a 24-hour notice policy for cancelations, it is also a nice courtesy to our clients.  For this reason, I send out my own email notifications one day before sessions.  Obviously, it would be great if these went out automatically, but I couldn't figure out a way to do this without having to pay for a subscription service, so I end up using Gmail's templates.  You can use Gmail templates to resend any email that has the same text and that you might want to send multiple times.  This ma...

Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel.  And in today's video, I'll show you how to use your iPad to draw on a whiteboard or a PDF and share it over a video call. I'm a mental health therapist who started seeing clients during Covid lockdown exclusively over telehealth.  Now, I'm in person a couple of days, but I still see the majority of my clients using a video call platform.  Since I'm a visual person, I like to share images and drawings with my clients to help explain concepts.  It was important for me to figure out how to do this even when seeing clients remotely. Okay -- here were my requirements: I see most of my clients through Doxy.me , but a couple over Zoom, so those are the main platforms I'll be discussing.  These methods should also work for other video call apps. Although I use a Mac laptop for video calls, I wanted to be able to draw on my iPad for a whiteboard.  I hate having to use a mouse to draw when I could...