Using ScreenSteps with Mailplane

Monday, December 21, 2009

ScreenSteps is a great application for creating step-by-step documentation and knowledge bases. It makes it easy to capture screenshots, annotate them with text and arrows, add text and explanation and finally export the complete article in different formats like PDF or HTML.

The latest version now neatly integrates with Mailplane. With the push of button a complete PDF document is exported and easily attached to an email message:

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Things app: Quick Entry Autofill for Mailplane

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Yesterday, Cultured Code released Things 1.2.2. Guess what's in the release notes:

Quick Entry Autofill now works in Microsoft Word 2008 and Mailplane.

Great! Now it's super easy to create a new to-dos based on email conversations. Most importantly, Things creates a to-do that links back to the Gmail conversation.

Here's how it works:

1. In Mailplane: open a Gmail conversation.

2. Select some text inside the conversation, it'll be added as Things to-do note:

3. Select Mailplane > Services > New To-Do containing selection as note or simply press ⌃⌥⇧⌘0. As a result you'll get the Things Quick Entry dialog:

4. Make your changes and press Save to add the to-do. After the dialog closes, the to-do can be found in your Things inbox. Just click the email link and your conversation will magically open inside Mailplane.

Email Picasa photos with Mailplane

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Google announced "Picasa for Mac" at MacWorld 2009:

Picasa for Mac looks and works much like Picasa on other platforms, and offers trademark Picasa features — such as non-destructive editing, and the ability to keep track of photos anywhere on your hard drive, then automatically account for new images as you add them. Right now, Picasa for Mac is still in Google Labs, but we very much wanted to get an early version out to folks attending Macworld (you can learn more about this beta release at the Google Photos blog). To run Picasa, you'll need an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 and above. We hope you'll give it a spin, and give us your feedback in person — members of the Picasa engineering team will be conducting demos at Google's Macworld booth all week (you can also check out the video tour below).

Like iPhoto, Picasa has an "Email" button to compose emails in Mailplane. Just make sure Mailplane is your default email application (see Preferences/Advanced). Then go to Picasa's preferences/Email and set Mailplane as your email app.

Google Calendar and Docs Gadgets

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Many Mailplane users asked for Google Calendar integration. Now Google released new Google Lab features to embed calender and documents in the Gmail sidebar. The latest Mailplane 2.0 release supports these two features.

From the Gmail Blog:

To get you started, we've worked with the engineers from the Calendar and Docs teams on two highly requested features: a simple way to see your Google Calendar agenda and get an alert when you have a meeting, and a gadget that shows a list of your recently accessed Google Docs and lets you search across all of your documents right from within Gmail.

Tip: To customize your sidebar, try the Navbar drag and drop lab feature.

Check the Gmail Labs group for support and feedback.

Support for “Remember the Milk”

Do you want to access your "Remember the Milk" tasks from Mailplane?

The latest Mailplane 2.0 version supports the new "Remember the Milk" Gmail Gadget. It lets you work your task from the Gmail sidebar.

Check out the installation instructions and screenshots on the "Remember the Milk" web site.