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The OnlineHomeBase Cookbook -
Easy recipes for organizing yourself and others with OnlineHomeBase.com.
OnlineHomebase (OHB) offers an extremely easy way of storing notes and files, creating
reminders, keeping a calendar, and collaborating online. The "OnlineHomeBase
Cookbook" (with just 22 pages it's really more a booklet than a book) shows how
various tasks can be accomplished with OHB, explaining each one in a brief, self-contained
"recipe". This approach allows the reader to focus on particular ways of using
OHB, without having to read about everything else. Download
the OHB Cookbook for free by clicking here. (522 KB, 22 pages. Requires Acrobat Reader)
Table of Contents:
Introduction 2
Basics 3
1. How do I save some text in a sheet? 3
2. How do I create a reminder that will be sent to me by email at a certain time in the
future? 3
3. How do I share a sheet with another person? 3
4. How do I upload files into a sheet? 4
Reminders 5
5. How do I create a reminder that will be sent to my cell phone? 5
6. How do I create a reminder that will remind me ever hour/day/week/year? 6
7. How do I create a reminder that will remind me every 3 hours / every 5 days etc? 6
8. How do I create a reminder that will remind someone else or several other people to do
something? 6
9. How can I create a group handle for easily creating reminders for groups of people? 7
10. How do I create a reminder that will remind me not just once, but also x hours earlier
and / or
later? 7
11. How do I create a reminder that will remind me on the 31st (or some other day) of
every month? 7
Sharing and Collaboration 8
12. How do I share a sheet with a group of people, for instance a school class or a
project team, if I don't know every body's email address? 8
13. How do I share many sheets at once with another person or several people? 8
14. How do I make a shared sheet private again, ensuring that people can't use sharing
invitations
that I have used in the past to regain access to it? 9
15. How can I get a list of all people with whom I share a particular sheet? How do I
remove the shared sheet from all / some of their accounts? 9
16. How can I be notified automatically everytime someone views and / or changes a sheet I
share with him/her? 9
17. How do I find out when someone last looked at a sheet I share with him / her? 10
18. How can people notify one another about changes made to a shared sheet? 10
19. How do I find out if someone has actually imported a sheet I want to share with that
person? 10
20. How do I make it so that someone can only view a sheet but not make changes to it? 10
21. How do I get rid of someone else's sheet that shows up in my account? 11
Miscellaneous 12
22. How do I insert an image that resides on my PC into an OnlineHomeBase sheet? 12
23. How can I copy and paste images from other Web pages into an OnlineHomeBase sheet. 12
24. How do I delete uploaded files or uploaded images when I don't need them anymore? 12
25. How can I retrieve old information after I've deleted it from a sheet? 13
26. How can I make sure that deleted information is not retrievable anymore? 13
27. How can I search all my OnlineHomeBase sheets? 13
28. How do I create a desktop icon that links directly to a sheet and logs me into OHB
automatically if I'm logged out?. 13
29. How can I create bookmark to my sheets in my browser's favorites? 14
30. How can I make a backup of all my OnlineHomeBase information to my hard drive? 14
31. How do I change the color of the OnlineHomeBase header bar? 14
32. How do I encrypt a sheet for extra safety? What is this good for? 14
33. How do I remove encryption protected from an encrypted sheet? 14
34. How do I use a secure connection and what is it good for? 15
35. How can I publish a sheet so people can view it without having to have an
OnlineHomeBase account themselves? What are the pros and cons of doing this? 15
36. How can I create an easy to remember Web address at which others can view a sheet? 15
37. How do I rename a sheet? 15
User Testimonials & Real Life Examples 17
About Marc Fest 20 |
