Emails and calendar events are two things you always want to stay up to date. However, you can’t always track them on your browser. While you can open web pages all the time, it is not convenient to constantly refresh the browser window or redirect from other activities.
In such a case, desktop notifiers present themselves as a more practical and reliable solution. They promise to keep you updated with new messages and reminders of the latest events via pop-up bubbles. Continuing with that, let us see how we can enable desktop notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar.
The best way is to use Chrome’s built-in notification pack. And you’ll need to do three things to configure the setup.
First, enable receiving notifications on the Chrome interface. click wrench icon in the top right and navigate to Options > Advanced > Content Settings. Scroll down until you locate the Notifications section. Here, check the option say Ask me when a website wants to display desktop notifications.
Second, sign in to Gmail and navigate to Setting. Under overview Scroll the tab for Desktop Notifications and check the type and criteria for the pop-up you want to receive. I have them turned off for chat and on for new email. Your preferences may require different settings.
When you save the settings, your browser will ask if you want allow mail.google.com to display desktop notifications (allow it).
Third, navigate to Calendar services and for any of your calendars visit Calendar settings. click Notification link and select the type of notification you want to receive. The most important combination here is the 10-minute Pop-up (which you can change). Again, allow mail.google.com to display desktop notifications.
Setup is done from your end. The next time you get any mail or have an event or appointment coming up (like in your calendar), you’ll be notified of the same thing.
Users of other browsers, don’t worry, we have some tools and add-ons to help with similar stuff. Gmail Notifier is a great desktop Gmail client that helps you configure multi-account logins and notify you of new messages (show message headers), indicate attachments, maintain unread counters and more. The same is offered for calendars via Gmail Notifier Pro.
If you are only interested in notifications then you can try Firefox add-ons like Tab Notifier and X Notifier. Tab Notifier shows a notification whenever the title of a tab changes even if it is not in focus. In addition to Gmail, you can configure it for social networking sites.
X Notifier is a pure email service and caters to Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo. It lacks instantiation and checks messages at periodic intervals that you specify.
Conclusion
These tips and methods will save you the hassle of opening your emails and calendars in a browser window and checking them manually at regular intervals. They serve a great purpose, and we’ve tried to come up with the best possible ways to do that.
Know more such tricks and simpler tools? We would love to see them in our comments.
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