There are valuable clues hidden in your romantic history — This piece is part of How Google Drive Can Make Every Corner of Your Life Easier As a teenager, I imagined my adult dating life would go something like this: Meet man. Marry. The end. Trial and error was for losers. Dating was for doubters. …

How to process the memories that live on our devices — This piece is part of How Google Drive Can Make Every Corner of Your Life Easier If you’ve ever been in a product design meeting, you know that often, it’s impossible to predict all the ways a piece of technology will be used once it’s out in the world. …

How tracking all my professional setbacks made me less afraid of them — This piece is part of How Google Drive Can Make Every Corner of Your Life Easier When things are tough, it’s tempting to look back on earlier parts of our lives through a nostalgia-tinted lens, forgetting that we’ve ever experienced any previous setbacks. …

Managing the logistics of death can also be a way to heal — This piece is part of How Google Drive Can Make Every Corner of Your Life Easier I’m a spreadsheety kind of person by nature. The tidy progression of columns and rows is comforting to me. Maybe that’s why a spreadsheet was one of the first things I made after my…

Make new friends, but sort the old ones into a 15-tier spreadsheet — This piece is part of How Google Drive Can Make Every Corner of Your Life Easier First I organized my spices. Then I organized my friends. In the early days of the pandemic, facing a glut of alone time and not yet numbed to the chaos, I resolved to get…

The ultimate self-improvement tool is something you already have — I’m a little intense about Google Drive. Through years of hyper-organized experimentation with the suite of apps that includes Sheets and Docs, I’ve developed systems to streamline and simplify, well, pretty much everything in my life. Grocery shopping. Holiday gift-buying. Parenting. Financial planning. My freelance project ideas. Even my love…

When life feels too busy to connect to something bigger, open your laptop and type — This piece is part of How Google Drive Can Make Every Corner of Your Life Easier Every once in a while, when I’m carrying a mental load that feels too heavy to bear on my own, I power on my computer and start a Google Doc. Dear God, I type…