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Don’t Just Bookmark The Article, Save Your Reading Progress

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Reading is a very good habit and it is always welcome to read new things. But the thing is there is a lot of stuff to read and we cannot give it continuous attention these days. Some people prefer reading articles at some intervals. There are some awesome applications like Pocket available to save/bookmark the articles offline, but until there is a way to mark our reading progress that doesn’t seem to be good.

New stuff to read is always welcome, but the problem is that there’s just too much stuff to read these days, and our attention is fighting a losing battle.

Save The Progress Of The Article That You Are Reading

There is a chrome extension which serves that purpose called Markticle. It helps the users to return to the exact same position in the article that they are previously reading.

  • Just go to the Chrome Webstore and install the chrome extension You can find the icon of the extension on the right of the screen along with the other extensions in the Google Chrome.
  • Now you have to sign up in the app using your credentials.
  • Now open the article that you would like to bookmark, then select a part of the text in that article to mark.
  • Now press the ‘M’ key on your keyboard or just right click and then select add to mark.
  • Finally, you can add some descriptive tags or notes to the article that you are saving to read later.
  • All your marks will be saved to your online account and you can easily access them by clicking on the extension’s icon in the browser.
  • You can click on the saved marks to start reading the article from where you have stopped earlier.

You can even delete them by just clicking on the ‘X’ icon on the saved mark.

Here Are Some Little Tools That Help You To Write Better Emails

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We get to write, forward, reply to emails every day. They may be work-related, personal emails or any others, we get to pass through mail-related task every day. Now here in this piece of article, I am going to take you through some little tools which will definitely help you to write and send better emails.

Email, like it or not, is the one tool that pretty much everyone has, everyone uses and everyone checks on a daily basis, so the business use of email isn’t going anywhere soon as an external communication tool. Then how can we ignore the sharing of information regarding the simple tools that make your email experience a better one? Here we go

Tools For Better Emails

Giphy for Gmail 

Like GIFs? Of course, you do, you’re currently on the internet. Now you can easily include the entire spectrum of human emotion in your emails.

three.sentenc.es

The Three Sentences mantra isn’t going to work for everyone, but some people it will work like a charm.

The website, ‘three.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be three sentences or less. It’s that simple.‘

Gorgias:

Stop creating templates in an unstylish way. They will not come to your use, other than using your space and they will be on drafts. Now you can create stylish chrome extension and productive templates by using a simple tool Gorgias. This is available as a free Chrome extension.

Grammarly:

The Grammarly Chrome extension helps you in a very brilliant way by checking for any grammatical mistakes and errors in your mail and thus saving your time of checking or rereading the mail before you send it. This one tool will definitely help you in sending better emails.

These are the little tools and extensions that might help you to be quick, clever and great at sending emails. Make use of these and send better emails.

Capture Web Pages With This easy Screenshot Taking Tool

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Screenshots, we might want to capture the screen one time or the other, for capturing the screen of your PC, there are a lot of options available and the inbuilt Windows application for capturing the screen which is the Snipping tool. But taking screenshots on the web pages is considered as a difficult thing, sometimes we may want to capture the whole web page or a part of a web page, here is a wonderful and very much useful Chrome extension that is going to be very much useful if you like to capture web pages.

Screen Capture is the Chrome extension which you can get from the Google Chrome ’s web store.

After installing it you can find the icon of the application on the top right corner of the Chrome tab. Now, whenever you need to capture the screen just click on that icon and you will find three options, and remember that the options will change from web page to web page according to its support.

Just click on the icon to find three options and the options include Capture page region where you can capture a certain region by dragging over the region where you would like to capture, Capture visible content is the second option using which you can capture the visible part of the screen, Capture the whole page captures the entire web page in just one click. And you can also find the Options option at the bottom where you can change the format of the file that will be saved. And you can also enable keyboard shortcuts for the actions there.

So, we hope you understand the uses of this Chrome extension and try using Screen Capture extension on your Chrome browser to capture web pages easily.

Make your hassles to capture web pages disappear.

How To Schedule An Email In Gmail To Send It In Future

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Gmail is probably the primary mailing service that many of us use and one of the most required features that it lacks is the mail scheduling feature. Everyone desires to have the feature to schedule an email as it may help them in many of the emergency situations and save them when they are in need many times.

If you are one such a person who is looking forward to enjoying this feature but on your Gmail account, then don’t worry, you can actually enjoy the feature without switching your mail and here is how you can.

Schedule An Email

In Desktop

  • You need to be using Chrome browser for this purpose as you need to download and install a Google Chrome extension called Boomerang for this
  • Now login to your Gmail account
  • Then open the compose mail box and you can see a new option on the bottom of the window which says send later
  • So, after you are done with composing the mail, just click on send later option to set the time and date
  • Specify the exact date and time at which you wish to send the email
  • Then hit on send later and your email will be scheduled

In Android

  • You need to get the boomerang for Gmail app downloaded and installed on your Android device
  • Then open the application and configure your Gmail using your login id and password for your Gmail account
  • Then compose the email in the application and hit on send later option
  • Now specify the desired time and date at which you want the email to be sent
  • Then finally hit send and your email will be scheduled, it will be sent at that particular time you have mentioned

Thus these simple chrome extension and Android app allow you to schedule an email in your desktop and Android device respectively. Do try them and make life sorted.

How To Block Websites In Chrome Using A Simple Chrome Extension

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The Internet is a huge place. It contains different kinds of stuff. The place includes many other spam, malicious websites along with the required good stuff. If you think you wish to stay away from that kind of stuff as much as possible. There are also certain type of websites which just decrease your productivity and also dangerous for your personal safety and privacy. Here is how you can block websites of such kind using a simple chrome extension.

Block Websites With Block Site Chrome Extension

You need to get the chrome extension Block Site installed on your Chrome browser by going into the Chrome web store.

As soon as you install and enable the extension, you will notice a new entry in the right-click menu.

You need to just tap on the block this site option from the right-click menu on the website you wish to block the entry of. You can also use this right click the link to block a specific page.

When you try to open a website that you have blocked, you will get to see a message on your screen that prevents you from opening the website.

You can configure various other options of this chrome extension, just tap on the icon in the upper right corner of the Chrome menu and then choose options.

Then in the site list tab, here you can directly enter a website where you can block the website without actually visiting it. You will even have an adult control option using which you can control all the explicit content if you are concerned about your kids. The extension even got various other options like you can block the websites at certain times.

Hope this Chrome extension the Block Site helps you in staying safe from malicious stuff from the web.