Ramscaping Your Google Account Week 8 – Maintaining a Shared Drive
Welcome to Week 8, our final week of our Ramscaping challenge! This week we’re cleaning out our Shared Drives and setting up long term methods for maintaining them. 🎉 Congratulations to our Ramscaping Week 7 winner, Sam K.! ⏪ If you missed last week, click here to see last week’s post. 🗓️ Weekly Goal: Schedule […]
Ramscaping Your Google Account Week 7 – Requesting a Shared Drive
Welcome to Week 7 of our Ramscaping challenge! This week we dive into Shared Drives, which are shared spaces that allow a team, project, department, etc. to store collaborative files. ⏪ If you missed last week, click here to see last week’s post. 🎉 Congratulations to Scottie W., our Week 6 Ramscaping winner! 🗓️ Weekly […]
Ramscaping Your Google Account Week 6 – Clipping Drive
Welcome to Week 6 of our Ramscaping challenge! This week we continue, and conclude, our personal Drive cleanup. We’ll be searching for the oldest files in Drive, checking we aren’t needlessly backing up files via Drive for Desktop, and taking out the trash. However, this isn’t the end of clean-up in Drive, as next week […]
Google Feature Updates Overview: April – July 2023
We interrupt your weekly Ramscaping broadcast with April through July’s new Google features blog post, where we’ll discuss the latest new features now available or rolling out to your VCU Google account. Ramscaping will resume on Wednesday! Since we have so much to cover, we will be using a slightly different format this time and […]
Ramscaping Your Google Account Week 5 – Shearing Drive
Welcome to Week 5 of our Ramscaping challenge! This week we’re officially entering the Drive-cleanup portion of the challenge and looking at ways for how to identify the largest files in Drive, which can be the quickest and easiest way to reduce storage usage. ⏪ If you missed last week, click here to see last […]
Ramscaping Your Google Account Week 4 – Trimming Gmail
Welcome to Week 4 of our Ramscaping challenge! This is the final week of our Gmail cleaning journey before we move onto Google Drive! Today we’re trimming away our oldest emails, taking a look at best practices for handling Spam, and finally taking out the Trash. 🎉 Congratulations to our Ramscaping Week 3 winner, Brian […]
Ramscaping Your Google Account Week 3 – Pruning Gmail
Welcome to Week 3 of our Ramscaping challenge! This week we’re going to start pruning the largest mail we can find and learn how to search for mail with attachments. 🎉 Congratulations to our Week 1 winner, Alice C. and Week 2 winner, Denise L. ⏪ If you missed last week, click here to see […]
Ramscaping Your Google Account Week 2 – Organizing Gmail
Welcome to Week 2 of our Ramscaping challenge! This week we’re going to start using our prepared tools from last week to begin organizing your mail and learning methods to keep the inbox maintained. ⏪ If you missed last week, click here to see last week’s post. 🗓️ Weekly Goal: Get your inbox completely emptied […]
Ramscaping Your Google Account Week 1 – Preparing Gmail
Welcome to Week 1 of our 8-Week challenge to Ramscaping your Google Account! Follow along on our journey to cleaning up your Google account and don’t forget to subscribe to the blog to enter the giveaway! 🗓️ Weekly Goal: Create three (or more) labels and get at least 75% of your emails under them. 🔥 […]
Welcome to the “Ramscaping your Google Account” Summer challenge!
Like a lawn or garden, your VCU Google account needs regular maintenance to keep things functioning and manageable, and when things start to get out of hand, it can be difficult to know where to start to get back on top. Over the coming weeks, we invite you to join our summer challenge: “Ramscaping your […]
