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Create serial letters with Google Docs/Suite

24. November 2020

Be it an invitation to a birthday party, a circular letter to the club members or any other marketing activity. Serial letters enable an automated and yet personalized approach to the recipients. In this article I would like to show how Google Sheets and Google Docs can be used to send even elaborately designed documents …

Show and analyse Gitlab issues in Google Sheets

6. October 2020

Back in May of this year, I showed how to display data from Gitlab in a Google Sheet using the GitLab API and Google App Scripts. Based on this, a new script has been created in the last few days that I would like to share with you. This time it’s about querying a whole …

How to delete an Amazon S3 Glacier Vault

10. August 2020

I never thought I would write a blog post about this topic. But after the simple task “Delete Glacier-Vaults” cost me quite some time, I want to share the suffering at this point.

Work more effectively with Pomodoro

22. June 2020

You know what that is? Your todo list is full of hundreds of topics and you stand there like paralyzed and don’t know where to start? The some or other important task is still not done? You feel unproductive and annoyed? The Pomodoro technique can help!

That is what this article is about. Five very simple steps that help you to tackle work consistently, keep track, avoid procrastination and feel productive.

7 values of a healthy life

23. June 202018. June 2020

Everyday life is just rushing by. Dates, projects, friends and other topics keep us busy. So it is important not to fall by the wayside and to lead your way back to a healthy life. What does healthy actually mean?

Today’s article will focus on the values that lead us to a healthier life.

Have you discovered the Holy Grail yourself? Then maybe it is still worth reading the article and expanding on it through your own experiences.

Stock analysis with Google Sheets

22. June 202027. May 2020

If you deal with the investment of money on the stock market, you will encounter numerous tools that provide you with evaluations and statistics. As a big Excel/Google Sheets fan I love to tinker with individual evaluations. In this article I would like to show you which reports you can create with the help of Google Sheets.

Google offers own functions in Google Sheets through their service “Google Finance”. You can use these functions to create very comfortable reports.

Simple time tracking directly in Google Kalendar

23. June 202020. January 2019

Even though many new working models do not use time tracking, I think it is very important to record the time spent. Someone once said: “Only what I measure can I improve”. For me personally, time tracking helps me to focus and budget my time. Especially when you work on many topics, it is difficult to set priorities. Time tracking helps me to keep within limits and to dedicate only the time I have allocated to each topic.

The most important thing for me is that time tracking is as simple as possible and can be integrated very easily. Therefore I have been using my calendar for four years now. A tool that is already open all day anyway. In this article you can find out how to do this.