Slack has quickly become the instant messaging platform of choice and main form of communication for businesses. One of the difficulties of operating almost exclusively using text is that it’s so much harder to read and understand the tone. However, changing the formatting of your text can add clarity and emphasis to your messages. No longer will corporate …
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First and foremost, welcome Shift Boss! You’ve joined a community of thousands of productivity enthusiasts around the world who are crushing to-do lists and getting more out of their day. As a newcomer to Shift, you probably have a few questions about how to get the most out of Shift. Well, you’ve come to the …
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Ever wish you could send text messages from your Windows PC while your friends on Macs chat away on iMessage? Thanks to Google, now you can! We know what you’re thinking: Why should Apple users get all the fun? As of June 25, the Android crowd no longer has to feel any form of jealousy. …
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What did we do, as remote workers, before Slack? The answer is simple, and it’s one that even a decade ago would have been a team’s only option. That answer was doing everything by hand and all communication in person – that is, unless you were privy to something called a “fax machine”… Slack has …
Productivity apps like Shift are dominating all of the app charts nowadays. So then why are so many of us still falling behind on it? From Forest to Wunderlist and beyond, productivity is a big trend right now. Frankly, we still seem to spend more time finding apps to manage our productivity than utilizing them. …
Facebook Marketplace came out of a place of necessity. It was a corner in the market that nobody else really explored yet – not Craigslist, not eBay. Facebook has what those sites don’t have: connection. Buying and selling via Facebook was an activity that got its start in Facebook Messenger and Groups. Friends would sell …
Trello Power-Ups turn your Trello boards from a simple whiteboard into the perfect project management tool based on your needs. Each one of the power-ups you can enable serves to make your Trello experience even more productive. (And, to be honest, way more fun). For just about anything you and your team might need, Trello has …
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Forwarding is undoubtedly one of Gmail’s most-used functions. With the help of Shift and Gmail’s auto-forwarding feature, you can cut the time you spend on email in half. You know the feeling: Opening your inbox only to see dozens of emails that should go to a different address. It’s a little frustrating, especially before coffee. …
Adding someone to a Trello board has never been easier than it is with Shift. If your team isn’t using Trello as a place to manage your ideas and projects yet, it’s time you started to think about it. A lot of product management tools out there just exist to be a tad more complicated …
Ask any person with a smartphone and they’ll tell you that emojis are life when it comes to posting on social media and texting with family and friends. OK, so you already knew that. Well, here’s what you probably don’t know: the emoji ‘language’ is becoming a major part of workplace communication and, more specifically, …
Do you remember what you did before Reddit? Time spent on the toilet was much less interesting, that’s for sure. But did you know that you can also have multiple Reddit accounts? It’s true. Although many of its users are okay with racking up the sweet Reddit karma on just one account, there are also …
Quick question: Why have only one Evernote account when you can easily manage multiple at the same time? Just like dial-up internet and AOL mail, the days of being confined to one account per program are long gone. Evernote is another program on the ever-lengthening list of those you can do this with. However, if …
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Sometimes, it proves difficult to get your Trello board looking the way you want it to. We’ve all been there – even us. (You don’t think it’s easy for us to collect our favorite GIFs without a Trello board, do you?) Maybe the labels aren’t working out, or your teammates ignored the layout of the …
Blocking somebody on any platform is always nerve-racking. What if they can tell? Well, if you block someone on LinkedIn, they’ll never know. Read on. Our hair is full of secrets. Have you ever seen somebody you know posting something cringe-worthy on Facebook? I think we all have. That is kind of what Facebook is …
Did you know you can protect sensitive information with Gmail confidential mode? If not, get ready to feel like a secret agent. ? Let’s be honest here. Didn’t we all want to be a spy at one point? On the other hand, I also don’t have the energy. All that secret-keeping, martini-drinking, and diamond-stealing? I …
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Busy? On vacation? Let your teammates know that you’re occupied with a simple Slack status. When your work is getting on top of you, it’s easier to let everyone know via a status than individual messages. Otherwise, that’s just one more thing you have to do when you don’t have the time to. Slack gives …
If you’re a leader of your organization, why not use Gmail delegation to let somebody else handle your emails? We now live in a world where most of us think we can handle everything. As a result, it’s not a surprise that work-related stress levels are soaring. With Gmail delegation, you can add another Google …
Even before we waved goodbye to AOL Instant Messenger, people were asking which messaging service was best. Today, the debate still continues. WhatsApp vs Telegram. If you ask us, it all depends on what you’re looking for… The comparison between these two apps has been neverending. It seems like the second Telegram existed, there were …
A crowded, bulging inbox is a total eyesore, am I right? By utilizing the Gmail inbox category tabs, your Gmail will be one step closer to the zero inbox dream. Sorting your emails into separate files is all well and good for a while, but what about when you have too many incoming emails to …
Does it ever feel like you have more calendars than you can handle? #wefeelyou. How would you feel if we told you there’s a way to help ensure that you’re on top of your meeting schedule? Juggling calendars is a difficult thing to do. It’s hard enough to the point where a lot of us …
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Who needs school when you have access to so many courses from right there on your couch? Okay, so school is needed, but why should kids get all the fun? With ever-mounting loans and having to fight to get into your chosen college, e-learning sites are basically a Godsend right now. As well as being …
Did you know that creating an email template in Gmail could save you more time than you realized you had? You’re about to have your mind blown. Composing every single email from the get-go is exhausting. Especially if you’re a freelancer sending upwards of 100 emails a day from multiple Gmail addresses using Shift. Even …
I’m not going to beat around the bush here – having online storage is the BOMB. It’s just a shame you can’t be logged in to multiple Dropbox account at a time… but not with Shift. Unless you can shell out enough to have a business or premium account, pretty much every cloud storage platform …
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Surprisingly, Gmail’s read receipt function is in the testing phase and also tends to only support certain Gmail accounts. Fortunately, there are few extensions capable of delivering more reliable Gmail read receipts than the native option. Especially with Shift, these extensions will automatically be applied across ALL of your Gmail accounts—you just need to choose …
Productive people love using Trello inside Shift. However, there are still a lot of people finding the different functions of Trello confusing. (Few of us at Shift included) In a similar vein to deleting and recovering a Trello board, the archive vs. delete debacle when it comes to Trello cards is confusing. What’s the difference? …
You know what’s annoying? When you sign into Shift to look at all your Black Friday offers but all the images show up as empty boxes. Luckily, the solution for this is simple. Instead of having to press “Display external images” every time you open an email, why not set it up so that images …
You’ve been there, I’ve been there. We’ve all been there. You have attachments you want to send only they’re “too large” to send via Gmail. Well, between us? There is a way around that measly 25MB limit… We aren’t talking using WeTransfer either. Although don’t get me wrong, WeTransfer is a cool program. Only if …
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…and it’s kind of a big deal. 😉 Here at Shift, we’re committed to streamlining your workflows, and personal-life-flows to help you get stuff done more efficiently. We As 2018 comes to a close, we wanted to up our app game significantly, so we’ve added 104 new apps to the mix! *mic drop* Over the …
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How many times have you had to save your important mail from the Spam folder in Gmail? If you’re like us, too many. But there is a way to stop it… Gmail is an incredibly smart engine, especially when you have multiple of them inside Shift; however, no technology is perfect. Sometimes, it filters important mail …
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Updated: November 2. 2021 There’s no just no good way to log into multiple Instagram accounts at once on desktop, or to view those accounts side-by-side or switch between them quickly. If you’re sick and tired of having to log in and out of your different Instagram profiles on the web, downloading the Shift desktop app …
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