Shortcut Spotlight: Google Spreadsheets

We're starting a new feature here on the blog that we're calling the Shortcut Spotlight. Basically, every so often we'll take a shortcut we think more of you should know about or is new and deserving and showcase it here. Besides describing it, we'll also include some examples on how you can use it to make your life easier.

Today we want to tell you about a very flexible shortcut that works with Google's online spreadsheets. I'm a big fan of spreadsheets because they're great for keeping all kinds of lists or tracking pretty much anything you might ever want to. And if you're geeky enough you can even use them to make all sorts of helpful charts and graphs.  

Well the Google Spreadsheets shortcut helps you with getting the information into the spreadsheet from wherever you need to. For example, I like to keep track of various stats when I run like how long, how far, and how many calories burned. With this shortcut as soon as I'm done, before I've even had the chance to forget it, I'm sending a message to txtful with all those stats in it.  In turn txtful dutifully turns right around and enters it into whichever spreadsheet I tell it to, along with the date and time when it was sent.  Awesome.

Another member of our team uses it with his wife to keep a shared grocery list that they can both add to whenever they run out of something. Then whichever one is at the store can just quickly scan the list on their phone and make sure they pick it up. There are a bunch of other examples too like keeping track of business expenses, calories, or a mileage log to name just a few.  I bet everybody out there could come up with something that would help them, so give it a try and let us know what creative uses you come up with in the comments.