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My Personal Finance Journey said:

Very good topic here! I think it's been mentioned a couple of times before, but I find that SEO Quake plugin saves me some time in looking up stats. 

Also, I use Outlook to manage my email, and have pre-made signatures with typical responses to advertisers or those emails we all get asking for a guest post. 

You include the canned responses in your saved signatures? That is brilliant!!! This makes it even easier than saving drafts or emailing yourself the templates.

I'm also with Jacob on the use of Outlook.  Each different email account can be set up in it's own folder, and the signatures can be customized to automatically be inserted depending on the email address used.  It keeps everything all nice and orderly, plus it has several really useful functions, like tying messages to a contact, with the notepad and calendar all in one place.  I'm lost when I'm not at my computer, though which is the biggest drawback to using shared hosting.  One day, I'll get a dedicated host and exchange server so I can access Outlook from anywhere which will be 1000% better.

Glen, The thing I like about Google is that it is all in one site or linked off of one site at the top: email, docs, etc. I also have all my email go through Gmail. So, I can check hank@….any of my sites all in the same place. You can also send email as any of those email addresses right from Gmail as well. In the Gmail "Settings", you can add accounts by clicking "Accounts and Import". Hope this helps. Having all the different email addresses under one program is a huge time saver.

I can get all of my email accounts through Gmail too.

Are we talking about the same Google Apps?  Google Apps for Business?  Or do you mean general Google applications?

Sometimes I think I have too many tools that they end up costing me more time because my processes end up too complicated. I should pick a select few and just do more things the old fashioned way instead of trying to optimize everything and wasting a bunch of time doing so.

I do love Google Apps though. I tried doing the consolidate all my email addresses under one Google Apps account thing (no sign out – sign back in) but I had one problem with it. When sending email from an account you weren't actually logged in as you could actually see the email account it was really sent from if you looked close enough (at the actual underlying email header).

Since my primary email address contained my full real name and I was trying to blog anonymously at first, that was a problem. With some very basic snooping people could see my real name evening though I was sending the emails as SavingMentor@domain.

Has anyone else noticed this or know of a way to get around that?

Just read up on SEO quake, will get that when I go home.

I love my Macbook, its the best/most expensive productive device out there. I also use Evernote, stayfocused and google apps. I find that Evernote  saves my life more than I care to acknowledge.

There are tons of cool Chrome extentions that really good for productivity management.