Two Google tips

Here are two simple but useful tips for Google Apps

Creating Reminders in Google Calendar.  

This is a new feature.  You can now add a "reminder" to your calendar (as opposed to an "event").  This is a great way to remind yourself to get something done at a particular date/time.  And they'll continue to appear on your agenda until you've marked them as done.  I've posted before about the usefulness of Google Tasks.  Tasks are still available, but they can be converted to Reminders as desired (down the road, I wouldn't be surprised if Google were to merge these).

Customizing the Google Apps Launcher

This is one of those really simple things that can make your life a lot easier.  If you didn't realize it, you can click and drag to move the icons in your Google Apps Launcher.  This is especially important if you want certain apps to appear "above the line" (i.e. not under "More").  Here a quick screencast on how it works.

Using Tasks in GMail

When I shared the screencast of the Google workshop from last week, I didn't include the piece we did on using tasks in GMail.  I got feedback that that was quite useful, so I've made a separate screencast on it.  Please note that you have to be logged in to a CVU account to see this one.