Monday Productivity Pointers

- [Instructor] In this week's Monday Productivity Pointers, I want to use a feature in the Chrome web browser that can help you if you have multiple accounts in the same service, like multiple Gmail accounts or multiple Twitter accounts, something like that. Starting here in the Chrome web browser, I want to go to gmail.com, where you can see that I'm already signed in to my Gmail account. That's because it remembers that I was signed in the last time I went to this site in the Chrome web browser. And this is great, this is convenient. But I have a Gmail account at work and another personal Gmail account. If I wanted to switch to my other Gmail account, normally I would need to sign out of this one, then sign in to the other. So it could be pretty tedious to switch back and forth. Or you can set up multiple profiles in Chrome. To do that, I want to click on the account button to the right of the address bar. And in this menu, I'll choose Manage people. So at the moment I have one profile. Let's add a second one by clicking the Add person button down here at the bottom. I need to give it a name. So I'm just going to call this Nick at home. This is a profile for me but it's going to be when I want to sign in to my accounts that are not related to work. So I've got a name. I'm going to choose an account icon. Down here at the bottom, there's the option to create a desktop shortcut. I do want to talk about that in a moment, so I want to make sure that's turned on, then I'll click Add. And that gives me this new separate window. And I want you to see in this second window, if we go to that account menu, now I'm in that other profile. And I know that because down at the bottom I have the option to exit the Nick at home profile. All right, so far so good. Now I have two profiles, and I just want to reset. I'm going to close these windows. So now in the future, when I open up Chrome, it will default to my standard profile. And I can see that here in this menu. So when I go to gmail.com, naturally, I'm already signed in to that account. But if I want to go over to the other Gmail account, I can go to that menu, I can choose exit the Nick profile, choose the Nick at Home profile. I can go to gmail.com where you can see I'm not already signed in to a Gmail account. So I could sign in to my other account here and it will remember me whenever I'm using this profile. Now we saw how to exit one profile and switch to another, but instead let's say I want to have one Gmail account open in this window and another account open in another window. Well, that's pretty easy. I can go to that menu and instead of exiting this profile, I'm just going to open a new window by clicking the name on the other profile. So when I do that, now I have a second window. One of them is in the Nick profile, one of them is in the Nick at home profile. And it will remember the accounts that I was signed in to the last time I was using these profiles. So I can have one Gmail account open in this window, and another Gmail account open in this window. Okay, so one last thing. I'm going to close these windows. And I want you to see when I created that second profile, I had that option enable to create a desktop shortcut. So now I have a shortcut on my desktop to launch Chrome normally, I have another shortcut to launch it directly in the Nick profile and another shortcut to launch it directly into the Nick at home profile. So if I double-click on this one, I get a new Chrome window. I'm already in that second profile. And of course it remembers any of the accounts that I was signed in to the last time I was using that profile. So this could be good if you share a computer with other people at home, assuming of course that you don't need the security of keeping people out of your accounts. Or it can be great for just switching between different accounts that you maintain yourself. And that does it for this week's Monday Productivity Pointers. We'll see you next time.