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1. Fred you re looking at Cloudmagic (Magical gmail search, by far) http://getap.ps/+483370844 [also chrome browser extension ] or Attachements.me http://getap.ps/+446390783 [same things with browser extension]

   1. thanks!

   2. If only it were a web solution…

      1. attachements.me is a web solution first. and on the mobile you have to go apps..

      2. @google-a9bcc4ca4eef3c66dc74682d28a175bc:disqus CloudMagic is a web-solution. The extension is just a front-end. Your index is stored in the cloud to give you device independence.

   3. I tried Cloudmagic’s Chrome extension for some time like a year ago. I loved it. It also allowed me to search in several accounts at the same time (Gmail, GApps, Twitter…), which is amazing. However I ended up removing it because it crashed a lot. I’ll give it another try because I see that they developed a lot since then.

      1. yep. try it again because they have seriously improved it and their ios/android app is just a blessing. amazing that google, a search company, did not solve that in the first place!

         1. Yeah, I also remember it worked much faster than gmail because it made local indexes of everything.

            1. @fernandogutierrez:disqus CloudMagic stores the index in the cloud to give you device independence. However, the search is still extremely fast compared to Gmail’s native search. The experience is similar to local Spotlight search.

            2. Thanks for the clarification.

         2. Hey Ouriel, thanks for recommending, glad to have you as a userCheers, Rishit Co-founder, CloudMagic

            1. My pleasure. i was one of your very very early adopters 🙂

            2. 🙂 Yep, clearly remember from your fb and twitter comments, as well as feedback

      2. Hey Fernando, can you try the latest extension from https://cloudmagic.com/k/do…Would love to have you back!Cheers, Rishit Co-founder, CloudMagic

         1. Hi Rishit, just tried it again and it’s great how you have improved it. I’m back 🙂

            1. Fantastic!

2. what about https://mail.google.com/mai…{query}eg. https://mail.google.com/mai…

   1. there it is. a bit wonky for a mainstream user. but it does appear to work.

      1. I believe, most of the cases are the ones that you need it on someone’s else computer?

      2. Just what those of us in the mainstream need…more “wonkyness” in our lives….. :)I am still savoring yesterday’s post and decided to write a book, “Embracing Your Failures (Somebody has to fail to make successful people stand out!)”I will make it an ebook, but the link will probably end up being one like the engagio survey in the email from William…it leads to something odd…

         1. Carl, the 2nd link worked (my bad)…here it is http://surveymonkey.com/s/e… Thanks for taking it.

            1. I will get my survey in shortly! Want to make sure you have lamestream, I mean mainstream input, not just that wonky stuff…. 🙂

      3. Once you know about firefox bookmarks keyword or Chrome search engine setting, it doesn’t sound wonky at all.

      4. Fred, you could also try this. It’ll automatically dump your attachments to Google Drive and then you can skip Gmail completely. http://howto.cnet.com/8301-…

         1. sweet!thanks

            1. No worries, just realized the link to the automatic dump to Drive was buried in that article, here’s the direct link to the write up for that particular function. http://howto.cnet.com/8301-…

   2. I’d prefer if all attachments in Gmail would be listed in Google drive under an Attachments folder and searchable there. But yours is a start.

      1. That’s a great idea actually. All attachments would be automatically archived and searchable from Google Drive, DropBox or other cloud service.

         1. +1.ADD THIS FEATURE TO ENGAGIO BY TOMORROW?

            1. How would that tie in with Engagio?It makes more sense for @google to do it, no?It’s so close to their products.(unless I missed something)

            2. NO, YOU RIGHT.ME THINKING OF OTHER THING THAT COMBINE SOCIAL AND EMAIL. ME TELL THEM TO BUILD INSTEAD.

            3. Engagio seems to me to be about contextual and automatic search, having the things you most likely want to reference in one place. Sort of like an inbox for the rest of the web. At the same time, you take an email with attachments out of it’s ordinary setting, alongside site emails and spam, and treat it as somethi.ng special.

            4. “Inbox for the rest of the web” I love it.

      2. ooh. that’s a great feature request for google. i would love that.

         1. I’m sure you have better connections in da G house than me so pass it on; and the article on a chrome extension for Drive looks good too 🙂

         2. See my post above. We find your important nuggets embedded in email like links (attachments later) and make them easy to find via filters. We want to eliminate the need for folders–so we organize the important stuff for you and make it easy to find. Starting with gMail, but as suggested below adding sources like Dropbox, Drive, etc. and maybe even Evernote would make it even more valuable (http://www.mozzoanalytics.com)

      3. Check this out.http://howto.cnet.com/8301-…

         1. Nice and what a timing!

      4. I am a litte late to the discussion, but–if I am understanding you correctly–we have built something very similar to what you suggest. It’s not a plug in, but OAuth functionality keeps it simple. All your more valuable links (docs soon) in a separate window from gMail and only a filter or two away.Check out http://www.mozzoanalytics.com … It automatically categorizes links (and soon attachments … many of which will probably reduce to a link soon) and enables you to get to any link via a simple filtering system (people, topic and time). We are trying it with only a filtering system right now and simply seeing if our user-specific filters are enough. Private beta now, but public beta is on its way.

         1. Thanks. I will check it out

3. Gmail is replacing the hard disk directory structure as the new digital filing cabinet

   1. they certainly have in my life

      1. Next you will be tweeting that you are using Google Play

   2. More so with GDrive now. I feel divided though. I love Dropbox and been a loyal client for some time, but having all my email in Gmail/GApps and carrying and Android around, the integration level GDrive can give me is amazing. I hate depending so much on Google, but I think I’ll do the switch sooner than later.

      1. I agree that a powerful alternative to the directory structure (which Dropbox is still using) is probably the only feature that can create a “Dropbox killer”

4. Hey Fred,Go to Gmail and do a search in your Inbox for something that definitely will have no matches. I did “nomatchhere”, but you can search for “jksndus”. The resulting page’s URL was https://mail.google.com/mai…. If you bookmark that resulting page, you can go directly to a blank search results page, from which you can then do a search on a different term or set of terms.Let me know if that works for you!Zach

   1. nice hack!thanks

      1. Fred, I don’t know where to suggest topics for your blog so I’m doing it here.What we need is some posts about how to get seed money for people who only have an idea. There’s lots of hackers hacking up stuff and that’s great the more programmers the better (because more programmers means I don’t have to write any code). But, I see lots of posts around the web where people have ideas and can’t find money to hire programmers to make v1.I think that is where a large gap exists – seed money for idea to product stage. Now with the new crowdfunding bill things will get easier. But, your knowledge would be great to have here.

         1. IDEA TO MVP NOT NEED MONEY.JUST NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS.

            1. It appears they struggle with technical issues and aren’t able to write code themselves. I saw on Feld.com where Brad said it’s becoming hard to find programmers. I don’t see that problem myself. But maybe people who are struggling to bring their ideas to market aren’t able to get the programming help they need?I feel better now having read your post. That whole dinosaur thing is just plain entertaining.

            2. THERE 2 PROBLEMS:PROBLEM 1 IS RIGHT PROGRAMMER TO MAKE YOUR IDEA IS BUSY MAKING THEIR IDEA.PROBLEM 2 IS STARTUP WORLD HAVE NO SHORTAGE OF IDEAS. SEED FUNDS NEEDED FOR PROGRAMMERS, NOT IDEA-ERS.ALSO: YOU WELCOME.

            3. “IDEA-ERS”That’s great!I have to disagree with #2. Programmers don’t need seed funds. They just need beer, pizza, and a code editor.

         2. if you can’t start to turn your idea into a product without any seed capital, i don’t think there is much i can offer in the way of advice.

            1. Oh my, disappointing. Some of those ideas have to be good for the consumer. Well a good thing is I’ve identified a gap that needs servicing. I feel bad for people who aren’t techies. It’s a shame to see them struggle so much.I always learn from your posts even in situations like this where you don’t have any direct advice, thx. So, you might be asking what have I learned. I learned that I shouldn’t have stopped teaching programming classes. People need it now more than ever.

   2. Cool indeed. Here’s an easy to remember link: http://bit.ly/inboxsearch

   3. Cool. Tried it. Works even for phrases with spaces between words (I thought I might have to manually URL-encode the spaces as %20 to make it work, but not needed). Though I didn’t have an immediate need for it like Fred does, I can see it being useful sometime. Thanks! (BTW I am using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine in Chrome – just mentioning it since those with different setups may find it doesn’t work).

5. One option if you don’t want to use third-party services for this is to bookmark the search query URL (e.g. https://mail.google.com/mai… which puts on overlay on most of your inbox and lets you search even quicker.

   1. yes, that seems like the best option given all the comments in this thread

6. This has worked for me. It still brings you into your inbox, but it lets you search from the URL bar in Chrome, and when it bring you to your inbox only the search results are showing: http://www.tech-recipes.com…To search Gmail from Chrome:1. Open Chrome.2. Right-click the address bar and select Edit search engines.3. Click the Add button.4. Input a Name (Gmail) and a keyword (gmail) and use the following for the URL box:https://mail.google.com/mai…. Click the OK button.6. Click the Close button.When you want to search Gmail, simply input gmail into the address bar and press tab. Search Gmail:will appear in the address bar. Input your search criteria and press return.

   1. that’s great. thanks

7. Hey Fred,Have you tried using https://cloudmagic.com/ this might be the solution :-)Cheersmekalav

   1. i will now. second suggestion in a few minutes.

      1. Hey Fred, Would love to hear what you thought of CloudMagic after you’ve given it a spinCheers, Rishit Co-founder, CloudMagic

         1. i just opened an account. i tried searching my mail. got a null result. how long does it take to index a mailbox?

            1. Takes anywhere between a few hours and a few days based on your inbox size, though you should see the most recent results pretty much immediately. Still seeing no results found?

      2. Fred,With due respect to the Cloud Magic suggestions, I think that is missing the point of what you’re trying to achieve. Cloud Magic IS an excellent product but it searches against MORE places (not just your Gmail) so when you search, it will show MORE of your other information that is none of anyone else’s business.Your goal is to be able to get into your Gmail search without displaying your private email for all to see. Here is another idea that just occurred to me that will solve your problem instantly and easily.Instead of logging into Gmail as you do now, log in at this URL:https://mail.google.com/mai…This opens your gmail inbox with an existing search for all messages with the label “nul” which should be NO messages. The result is that when you open your gmail, your inbox area will be blank. You can then conduct your search as usual within the Gmail interface. No revealing of any messages in your general inbox… not even for a second.

         1. you are right robert. the bookmarklet at the top of this thread uses that URL and adds some logic around it.

      3. @aweissman uses CloudMagic. he can tell you about it 🙂

   2. Hey Mekalav, thanks for recommending, glad to have you as a userCheers, Rishit Co-founder, CloudMagic

8. Let me understand this: your entrepreneurs (and you) are walking into a room with a projector. The projector is attached to a local laptop/computer. You need access to your files in the cloud, so you log into *their* computer to search and display.And, you already have a highly personalized cloud access device on you – iPad, iPhone or Android.That is inefficient (and insecure). Why bridge the gap that way? Why not find the item *on your device* and then stream it to the projector?I have a client that put $99 Apple TV devices in every conference room. Dirt cheap, and now we just stream from our laptops/iPads/phones on demand.

9. greplin is not bad, and xobni also.

10. Good idea. I have needed the same… but what I do in the meantime is, as soon as I open my Gmail, I click on the Spam folder and then click into the Search box.Mic.

    1. ooh, that’s clever. i should have thought of that.

11. Fred,What you’re talking about exists already. I experienced exactly the same thing as you and this is what I figured out…First, when you have a file attachment that you need, you can place it in your Google Documents. It is there under lock and key using the exact same credentials as your Gmail. There is no downloading and uploading like you would need to do if you were using a non-Google cloud locker of some sort. A duplicate of the file is stored in your Google Documents with a single click and the transfer is instantaneous.When you make your presentation, instead of opening up your Gmail, login directly into your Google Documents:http://docs.google.comVoilà! No inbox is exposed… just your file.(I only ever put my next one in the home folder and put the others way in subfolders when done so an audience never sees anything but the file I want).You can also use Cloud locker services like Dropbox, box.net, or any of the MANY choices out there for remote storage but that involves more steps in moving the files from where it is to where it is going.That leads me to third point that I THINK is good news:Google Documents is about to be replaced by Google Drive which will work even more like Dropbox (and the like) but has the additional benefit of its integration with Gmail (i.e., web-based viewers/editors for all major file types including Office Files, and most importantly using your Gmail login credentials and this instant transfer with a click capability I mentioned).You can learn about Google Drive here:http://drive.google.comGoogle Drive is going to make it possible so you don’t even need the file but simply a link to it so that the file ALWAYS lives on your Google Drive “automagically” when someone sends you a file attachment so it will be even more like what you’re looking for eventually. Google Drive is already available as a separate service and the “upgrade” of changing over Google Documents to Google Drive inside your Gmail is literally days away from happening according to my sources.Hope this helps.

    1. this is great. but you have to know ahead of time that this is a document you will want later. that isn’t always the case.

       1. You’re quite right and the same thought occurred to me shortly after I wrote you this initial suggestion. A bit later, I posted a concept of linking into a non-existent label search so that when you open up your Gmail, none of your inbox is displayed.The drawback of that was having to type in a contrived URL. I have since come up with a solution that is inspired by the title of your post. I will direct message you about how to use it via Twitter.

          1. awesome!!!

12. Anther option is to load the presentation to a site like http://www.mediafire.com/ (I’m a user, but have no connection with them), so you can easily access it without ever using your inbox.

13. Are we potentially overthinking this?Either freeze the projector for a second, get it and un-freeze if the feature is available -elseJust unplug for a few seconds and plug it back??I guess I am that guy today.

    1. Love it!

    2. #goodenough

    3. you’d be amazed at how often hooking your machine up before a presentation doesn’t work. Taking a dramatic chance to unhook or unplug something could lead to the awkward 15 min of “ah, just a second, i’m sure it’s going to connect, it was working 5 seconds ago”

       1. that’s a good point leigh, has happened to me more than a couple of times

       2. Fair point.Maybe freeze is a better option. I just think there’s got to be simple way.But again, that’s just my view… what do I know? 🙂

       3. You can toggle/un-toggle the screen sharing from your PC/Mac while doing this.

       4. #Murphy

    4. Or place a piece of paper in front of the projector for a minute while you search.

       1. EXACTLY. I always have a little cloth pouch where I carry my speakers (x-mini’s – emergency speakers that work without any usb/power – highly recommended!) and end up covering the projector with it anyway..Thanks for bringing it up, William!

       2. Both sound too low tech for Fred

       3. projector suspended from ceiling?

          1. toggle/un-toggle the external screen from the pc.

          2. bring tape with paper, stand on table

       4. yours is the “haccams razor” solution 😉

       5. Just shout “AVERT YOUR GAZE!” loudly.

       6. You reveal your old school roots :), there’s no transparent slides here, he’s accessing a laptop connected to a digital projector right?

          1. No, I understood that of course. but i recall when we had to use foils for slides and print them on HP color printers.

             1. what is a foil?

             2. We used to call them Transparencies too. They are like a transparent sheet of paper that you either run through the photocopier or a color plotter (like inkjet), and then you’d need an overhead projector to show them. We did this as late as 1997 probably.

    5. Is it fun Friday already?handkerchief

    6. “Are we potentially overthinking this?”See now I was thinking why don’t you just setup another gmail account and forward everything that you need for the presentation to that account and then login there instead of your main account. When done archive or label etc.

       1. I think you underestimate Fred’s gmail and email worries…. do a gawk.it on gmail and email …i really like gawk.it the more i use it…. the new OH QUACK is really good.

          1. “underestimate Fred’s gmail and email worries”Not at all. They are well documented. I was just addressing this one issue which is the question that he raised.

          2. Thanks! Hearing stuff like this always makes my day!About 10 minutes after Fred initially mentioned gawk.it one of the guys at DDG reached out to me to suggest I offer users to extend their search on DDG if gawk.it returns no results…I loved the idea (and the hustle) so I plugged it in right away…glad someone noticed it (well not that glad because it means gawk.it didn’t find you something, but you know what I mean…btw I’ll be adding more blogs with comments to the overall collection very soon [working through the bigger things pointed out the other day first])

             1. ddg?

             2. DuckDuckGo search engine. An AVC portfolio company. 🙂

             3. ooooo. I just didn’t know the shorthand

             4. sorry – DDG is my shorthand for DuckDuckGo.com

             5. s’ok

    7. It’s all about reducing friction, increasing fluidity. Reducing the number of actions required for any task, making life easier.

       1. Matt, Read this: Confessions of a recovering lifehackerhttp://lifehacker.com/59128…”Maybe all the time I spend looking for better ways to do things is keeping me from, well, doing things.”

          1. Oh, but I’m doing things my friend. ;)At some point you have to move from creative thinking into active execution, of course — and hopefully while maintaining the creative mind.

    8. I agree. Actually, I try to run my laptop as a separate screen rather than a mirror so that I have a private “staging area” during presentations.

       1. So do I. It also means I can scan the notes field under each slide to see if I’ve forgotten anything.

    9. Bonus points for non tech solution.

    10. too much hassle. i’d rather show my inbox than do that

    11. Old school can be smart!

14. Search “my google world” is def something Google should be providing as an option if you are a logged in to Google.It’s scary how many Google products I use. Have to say that Google+ instant upload is just amazing. Photos and video instantly backed up and available everywhere.

    1. Yeah, I’m scared with my Google dependency too. Sometimes I have this nightmare in which a naked Google engineer lives inside my fridge… gotta tell my therapist.

       1. Sounds ok to me Fernando if the engineer is one of the new batch of hot female ones that Google have recently employed to #changetheratio

15. Add this bookmarklet I wrote to your browser:javascript:function gmailSearch(){ var search = prompt(‘Enter your gmail search’,”keywords”); document.location=’https://mail.google.com/mai…}gmailSearch();

    1. Nice solution. Just added it to my bookmarks

    2. Nicely done, Michael.

    3. Sharp hack Michael, the URL was shortened, we can click through an recreate, can you throw it into a gist?<3 bookmarklets (as opposed to plugins)

       1. Here. Use this jsfiddle instead of a Gist. http://jsfiddle.net/spanish…

          1. muchas gracias 🙂

          2. oooo, better

    4. this is excellent. i am going to put this on the chrome browser in our conference room. thanks!!!!

    5. michael, will this work if you are not signed into gmail in another tab on the browser?

    6. I don’t see the bookmarklet, even though I want it…where is it?

    7. Cool, much easier solution than we just released at http://www.ninjaquery.com (after some days of hacking).

16. You may even use this bookmarklet to search your Gmail mailbox from any other browser tab http://labnol.org/gmail.html

    1. bingo. this is it. thank you so much!!!!

    2. the one issue with this bookmarklet, which is slick, is that if i am not already logged into gmail in the browser, then i am taken to a login page and then after supplying my credentials, i go to my inbox, not the search results

       1. Google probably drops the search parameters once it redirect from the login page to the inbox. In the case, the workaround could be that you pre-login through another google property – like google.com – and it won’t reveal your mailbox on the projector.

          1. yup. that’s the workaround. i’m wondering if that could be worked into the bookmarklet in some way.

             1. That would be an ideal solution. Maybe we can display the search box only when the user is logged in. Let me think if we can incorporate this logic into the bookmarklet itself.

17. But a minor flaw with this scenario (and others have pointed it out already) is that you’d be revealing other private info from your Search results.

18. search on the android phone, re-send to yourself on the phone, and then open the first unread email msg in the browser

    1. that’s clever

19. Being sloppy in my storage behavior, I would love this app/tool especially if it could also search for documents within my Dropbox account and possibly across two different Gmail Accounts.

20. In Chrome you can use Custom Search Engines right from the address bar:- Right-click the address bar, then “Edit Search Engines…”- Fill out a new row – keyword: a shortphrase, something like “gmail” – URL: https://mail.google.com/mai…Now just type gmail in the address bar and hit space, and it will prompt you for a custom search, and will return a Gmail search page for whatever you type in after the space.–Btw I never thought about using it for gmail but I’m definitely adding it now. Some others in my arsenal:Search for a particular address in Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps…Find directions from my office to a particular address: http://maps.google.com/maps…Create a quick event in Google Calendar: http://www.google.com/calen…Greatest feature ever.

    1. that’s a great idea. thanks. i will do that.

21. Looks like someone already is thinking this way Domain Name: GMAILSEARCH.COM Registrant: Above.com Domain Privacy 8 East concourse Beaumaris VIC 3193 AU [email protected] Tel. +61.390057904 Fax. Creation date: 2012-02-08 Expiration Date: 2013-02-08

    1. like minds

       1. DownUnder – Looks like registrant is in Victoria AU#Go Figure

22. I have to go with @rrohan189:disqus on this one.On your mobile, you can have the screen showing the different categories (inbox, personal, sent….). If an option for ‘search’ were there, it would take you straight to search bringing up what you’re searching for (now a message with attachement, forward into searching attachments) without the contents of your current inbox.That screen then needs to be placed on web. We don’t need to be so ‘Mobile 1st’ that we make other vehicles useless.

23. Hey Fred, have you ever checked out Attachments.me? It plugs into gmail and collects all the attachments from your inbox and then you can access these attachments from your attachments.me account. No need to go into your Gmail at all!

    1. I have a feeling Google’s eventually going to offer this / have all attachments listed in Google Drive (if they don’t already?)

    2. i don’t want yet another cloud based service to use for files. google drive should have this feature

24. hey try out the “cloudmagic”….it plugs in small search bar in your browsers…you can not only sync and search gmail but also various other cloud accounts all from one place…must be most apt for ur purpose…

25. Fuck yeah this needs to happen. Gchat/privacy is a liability when searching for a presentation. Just make it a nice little web app, problem solved.

    1. there’s a sweet bookmarklet at the top of this thread that i am hopeful about.

26. Funny. I just had to do this last night at a presentation to local investors/business/tech people who went to pay window in the past.Of course the laptop was already hooked up the projector – as loading the file from a USB stick was my initial route, though the laptop failed to read it for some reason.There happened to be nothing incriminating, exposing, or embarrassing – though I could see for someone who deals with confidentiality, etc. a lot it it would save a lot of worry.

27. I use Cloudmagic.com exactly for these stuff. Usually works faster then the Gmail search even.

    1. Yeap. Cloudmagic is cool. You should check it out Fred.

       1. just did try it out. i guess it takes time to index the inbox because i am not getting any email results yet.

          1. Yes, it needs to index first. It should be fine by now, right? Did you tried it out?

             1. i did try it out. i honestly prefer gmail native search. but i will give it time to see if there is a use case that jumps out at me.

             2. A few guys in Berlin are working on something in the same space but with a really cool twist. It’s called…archify: your searchable, indexed personal search engine for everything you’ve ever seen on the internet.

28. I use Alfred App as a quick launcher. It does this by default, just by typing “gmail {query}” Quick launching is a godsent for presentations and makes me look super prepared/computer savy to people who haven’t seen them before.

    1. thanks

29. Emailing yourself files? Simply use a cloud service such as SugarSync (or my competitors Dropbox, Goodle Drive etc) and log in to to get your file from any computer or device. No need to show your inbox.

30. While your presentation needs might be ad hoc, ergo the need for a spur of the moment inbox search, I find the fact that the entrepreneur coming in has not previously identified the presentation and saved it in a folder like “BIG USV MEETING” curious…I think this is over-thinking. Or simply toggle the screen for a moment.

31. Sorry to comment without reading all the current comments first (88 as of this writing). I normally read all before posting, but I have my hands full right now. Sorry if this has been mentioned.@fredwilson:disqus You (or other readers) may like the results of setting Apple Mail on your Macs to pole your gmail via IMAP. Then use the Mail search feature or Spotlight to search. It’s waaaayyyyyy better search than Google’s built-in search IMO, faster, better, more precise, etc. Of course, this is not a Windows solution, but I know that you have some Macs in your network. Frankly, I hate the gmail browser UI and almost never access gmail via browser (I use Mail for it), so it’s natural to me. It may not be for you.Edit to add: I did not make it clear, but this method does allow for not exposing your inbox contents, assuming appropriate search criteria. However, is does not help visitors who access gmail via your systems.

    1. i don’t want to use desktop software so this isn’t for me. but maybe this will work for others.

       1. I was pretty sure that would be the case, Fred. I wasn’t sure if you considered such use of an e-mail client (for IMAP) much different from the utility of a browser (I consider them similar). We each have our methods that work for us (hopefully). The bookmarklet script from Michael Freeman is a handy alternative for some as well (edit: or Amit’s).

32. Greplin (http://greplin.com/ ) does pretty much exactly what you describe here.

33. You can do that with Greplin, but you might still expose some other personal stuff.I wrote http://savemyinbox.com for this exact problem. While I’m fine with having all my email on the cloud, I want all my email attachments on my computer, so that I can work on them any time I don’t have connection.Give it a look 😉

    1. cool. i will check it out.

34. One suggestion to anyone using gmail. Gmail does go down. For example there was an outage that affected some users just the other day.http://www.huffingtonpost.c…You can setup a address to fwd all mail to and to archive. This can be another free account at another provider (say an aol.com address or a yahoo.com address) that you can setup with the a similar email address such as [email protected] etc.The hardest part of doing this is finding the correct address in gmail (it’s located under the settings icon which is a gear wheel upper right corner of the screen).Or just go here when you are logged in:https://mail.google.com/mai…And see “add a forwarding address”.That way if gmail is down you can always login to the backup account and retrieve any old email. But it’s also possible that email will continue to fwd to the backup even if you can’t access it on gmail.com in some cases. Depends on what the gmail issue is.It’s free to do this and also provides a good backup and archive of your gmail.

35. Greplin does exactly that (disclosure: I’m an investor).

    1. i will check it out Chris

36. My maternal grandmother died today. Her name was Evelyn. She was 90.She was diagnosed with lung cancer three weeks ago. I went to her home this morning and found her collapsed but still warm on the floor of her bedroom. I tried to revive her but she didn’t respond. I believe the stress and strain of recent days had become too much and her heart suddenly gave out. I loved her so very very much.I will be absent for a while as I grieve. She was a thoroughly good person with a charming innocence and I will miss her greatly.

    1. My condolences on your family’s loss.Take care of yourself and see you soon.

       1. Thank you Tom.

    2. take as much time as you need – if you need someone to talk to, feel free to email me at shana dot carp at gmail

       1. Thank you Shana.

          1. you’re welcome – it is the right thing to do.

    3. My condolences. At old age lung is the most vulnerable part which gets affected very easily and takes the hit and finally the heart gives up … because it is unable to compensate for the lung’s inability.Take care of yourself.

       1. Thank you Kasi.

    4. oh man. i am so sorry jason. thanks for letting us know.

       1. Thank you Fred.

    5. I’m sorry for your loss, Jason. Thank you for sharing with us. Blessings to you and your family in your time of sorrow.

       1. Thank you Dale.

          1. You are welcome, of course, Jason. Good to see you back.

37. What happened to “come prepared”? Re-send, reply, … the presentation to yourself before you go so it’s at the top of the heap. Or, better yet, have it already open on your device, or on a usb stick.

    1. you can’t prepare for every request in life

38. I can totally relate as I was in a room presenting to a bunch of people, and it’s not just Gmail, it’s Docs as well. Had a presentation, and had all my docs displayed on the big screen in front of everyone. What if my friends personal doc was there with some title I didn’t want to see? If MBA Mondays was on the list of items, it would be good, right? It could be a little uncomfortable for a little bit if someone sees something you didn’t want them to see in a long list of public items. The reality is, even if you have a hundred people in a crowd looking at your email subject lines, they probably wouldn’t think anything of it, or be cognizant of something you didn’t want them to see.The challenge is when you’re on someone else’s computer. I guess the best thing to do in this case is to stand in front of the projector or attempt to distract the audience…As far as plugins go, there are plenty of interesting and cool plugins out there for Gmail. There was one I had tried for some time, yet uninstalled it. It was called CloudMagic, and think it definitely works pretty well. If you have a moment, be sure to check it out. A great video interview with one of them is here, check it out: http://youtu.be/IJjztU-TjcU

    1. thanks eric

39. Well, if you get in the habit of putting everything into Google docs, then you search that, and there isn’t an interface where it is showing all the “from” and “to” in the same way, just the file name.

    1. i am not in that habit and probably am not organized to get into it. it would be awesome if google did this for me automatically.

40. @fredwilson you say you care about search. we should talk

41. Try the Found Mac app. https://www.foundapp.com/ It acts like a Finder that you can also link to your Gmail account to search for emails or docs

42. There’s https://www.greplin.com it’s a little more feature-packed but basically offers a search box on your contents.

43. I always love how Fred openly expresses his wish list for useful apps – This could result in a treasure trove for some entrepreneurs!!

44. This is simple: use the Found app on Mac, excellent gmail search.

    1. Yeah. But I dont use desktop software

45. Maybe this has been pointed out but I don’t see it in the contents.I use the Gmail search plugin for chrome:https://chrome.google.com/w…I type in “gs” + “space” then my search term.I use this every single day, and can’t imagine living without it.It’s part of my “bypassing the inbox” strategy, which also includes setting up a global shortcut to the “compose message” screen: http://theslowhunch.net/201…

    1. Do you have to be logged in for this to work?

       1. Yeah these are both just shortcuts to existing gmail screens so if you’re not logged in it will prompt you. The shortcut for compose works globally across Mac os, via quicksilver, and the shortcut to search requires you to switch to chrome first then search. Switching to this setup has really improved my experience w email, both for searching and composing. –http://nickgrossman.infoon the fly

       2. of course, what I describe only works on your own personal computer, not a random computer in someone else’s office.

46. Here’s a reminder that certain things may not be appropriate for some cloud services if one needs real privacy and security. Any system can be hacked, and Google Apps is obviously no exception, but since some in the community here have expressed “concern” about being addicted to Google or similar cloud products, this post might be a good reminder to be thoughtful of how one uses such services: http://blog.cloudflare.com/…

47. I think Greplin could be a solution for this? You can hook it up to all of your accounts, and search specific apps (GMail, Dropbox, Facebook, etc) without exposing your inbox.

48. You’re that worried about showing your inbox? Is this the new equivalent of public nudity or something? I turned the message preview off, so I only see the subject anyway.There’s a toolbar at the top of ANY Google product to switch to a different one (+Nolan, Search, Maps, Calendar, Play, Drive, etc). So all you need to do is log-in to your google homepage or even maps, and just go straight to drive. In Chrome the “address bar” is now an “Omnibox”. Eventually you should be able to search you’re inbox from there.You don’t save your presentations in Google Drive (formerly Docs)? Well that’s your own problem.Why would any materials be in your inbox anyway? There’s a chrome extension “Save to drive” for gmail attachments. Did you “email yourself” the documents? There’s no need for that anymore! Just put it in your drive. We have all these amazing cloud services, start using them.I’d wager that I have better organisation than most of the AVC community. As a chromebook user, I have to. My bookmarks bar has folders and sub-folders to save space. I forward/import my other emails to my main one, labeled, star important messages, etc. Really, everything I do is in the cloud. So I could throw this away, and on any computer, log in to Chrome in order to have everything the same as I left it.Fred,Consider buying a “chrome box” for your conferance room. http://www.google.com/intl/en/chro... If it’s not in the cloud, then just put it on a flash drive and plug it in.

49. Hi everybody,although plenty of workarounds have been collected meanwhile, a friend and I had started working on a quick solution to this problem late Thursday.We have just finished and deployed http://www.ninjaquery.com — a simple search front-end with keyboard shortcuts to quickly access specific search results.For all tech-savvy founders round here: It’s built in HTML5 using Java/Scala framework Play and runs on Heroku.Wei-yah!

50. Turn off display mirroring by default. Problem solved

51. Google’s Quick Search for Mac (the son/daughter of Quicksilver) does exactly this, as well as other things, very well. I know you don’t want to use client software, but it’s a very small multi-purpose app.http://www.google.com/quick…

52. Hi everybody,although plenty of workarounds have been collected meanwhile, a friend and I had started working on a quick solution to this problem on late Thursday.We have just finished and deployed http://www.ninjaquery.com — a simple search front-end with keyboard shortcuts to quickly access specific search results.For all tech-savvy founders around here: It’s built in HTML5 using Java/Scala framework Play and runs on Heroku.Wey-ah!

53. HUMMFred – I thought you were not one to use formal presentation ( PPT, Google Presentations app).A. I was lucky enough to attend the AVC / MBA Mondays talk you did back in April – no slides – just Fred writing on the white board wallB. Attended – the Rethink series @ the Grind – when you talked about VC – again no slidesC. I have tuned into several recorded Fred talks – again no slide deck, just Fred referring to some notes on his DroidI am guessing if I was a LP ( Shareholder) – I may see a Fred Wilson PresentationDon’t get me wrong – I very much prefer no slides, I think they are over used…..

54. I’m a little late to the party here, but I think Attachments.me could solve your problem. You’d have two choices.You could setup one of our ‘automatic filing rules’ to have all your attachments be saved into a Dropbox folder. Assuming you have the Dropbox syncing app, you’d then just be able to use the mac finder to bring up your document.Otherwise we have our web front end which just shows thumbnails of attachments you’ve received and allows you to do an attachment focused search. There is a link from our site that will open Gmail directly to the original message.I’d love to hear if you get a chance to check it out.

55. greplin?

56. I was about to say that – but I wasn’t so happy with it as a service (slow, not explaining its search function well)

57. @ShanaC:disqus Have you tried CloudMagic lately?

58. nope. On my long-ish to do list