 Hi guys, welcome back to Daniel's Tech World on Medium on YouTube and now on danielrosil.tech. So for today's video what I want to take a look at and demonstrate quickly is the process I'm using, have been using for the past few months actually in order to get my newsletters at a Google group. Why do I want to do this? So if there's one thing I can tell you about my several strange eccentricities in terms of the way I use the internet is I've always found newsletters particularly annoying and that's actually kind of completely unfair because what I mean to say about that is there is a trend and I'm surprised that it's legal but it is legal that anytime you so much as send a contact form to a website or order something you'll be opted into their newsletter email marketing system. Now I don't know if it's just me or this speaks to you or a lot of people but I spend about five to ten minutes per day I would estimate maybe every two days unsubscribing from various newsletters which I never subscribe to and I find the whole thing kind of annoying. Now that doesn't mean that all email newsletters are bad in fact I think that there are many good email newsletters which I want to subscribe to. So the purpose of this creative uses for Google groups as I have described this here is I try to create a little system for myself whereby my inbox and I just jumped into here Daniel Roseholdemo at gmail.com it's just a demonstration gmail that I set up for this for the purpose of making this video so there's nothing really in there except for these emails I sent myself for another medium post about a way to defeat pixel tracking pixel based email tracking so there's really nothing in here but you know this is my actual inbox which I can see in my second screen over here to the right that's not being screencast I can see a jumble of newsletters which I unsubscribe to now it's kind of hard to get around this completely because as I said when you do contact people or order stuff online or take other activities it tends to happen that you will get signed up for newsletter so there's not really much you can do about that but one thing you can do is if you're creating accounts on the internet let's just Google here sign up for free trial is you can create a give an accounts at thing for that now if you are using Gmail so I use G Suite which is G Suite is when you can use Google services including its email Google SaaS services on your own domain if you are using just regular Gmail and this clearly Daniel Roseholdemo is just a regular Gmail address there is a trick you can use which would be for instance so I'm Daniel Roseholdemo with Gmail.com but you can do add a plus symbol at the end and then add something newsletters let's just say then what you can do is and you can add anything there just again your Gmail the plus symbol and an operator then what you could do is this is a new Gmail feature that I've just been acquainted with here what you could do is if you go into your filters and you can create a new filter and if it is sent to that special operator then you could pipe that into a folder you create a folder here called newsletters or you know it could be plus let's just see here Airbnb and you could create an Airbnb folder and associate that you know email address with Airbnb and then whenever you get email about your Airbnb listing or stuff you're booking through Airbnb it'll automatically write so that's one thing now before before it's pointed out I am aware that there are different inboxes and if you go in the inbox tab here in settings there is an updates and the forums and a promotions is typically the one that will catch your email your email newsletter so I typically disable that I like everything everything in one place now what I want really is for all my actual email to be here not to be getting a bunch of newsletters and mass marketing material that's not actually personalized to me so that's my rationale why I don't use these alternative inboxes and what I do instead is I set up groups so this is just groups.google.com and you do need a Google a Gmail address or a Google address or a G Suite address in order to access this but let me just this is just mirroring the process that I do in the G Suite version of Google groups with my own domain so I call it something like let's just call it Daniel Rossell news oops Daniel Rossell I'm just going to zoom in a bit here newsletters and I will say Daniel Rossell newsletters at Google groups.com and newsletter collection group for my demo Gmail account all right so I've just given it a description now the permissions are important if you have you do not really want people to find your group because this is really something for internal use so I would change this if you're on Gmail to just all members not anyone on the internet now who do you want to post to the group this is very important it needs to be anyone on the web because the email address that's sending you a newsletter is going to be anybody there you wouldn't want to have for instance select group of users or people that join the group you need anybody from any email address in existence to be able to send stuff that will get collected in this group so you need to actually add to the default permissions for the post settings in terms of viewing the topics all members they're basically you're not you don't want anyone to be joining this group so by setting group visibility just to the members and not really adding anyone you're kind of keeping it a bit hidden and view topics you can just restrict it further even though you can just restrict it all the way to owners because we're going to be the group owner and the only person accessing the group so you know in general you want to elevate these permissions to the smallest degree possible while still providing functionality so just to reiterate I changed the post and permission upgraded that to everybody and group visibility I set to only members so that people can't actually find this group it is an email list and that's it basically I'm ready to create and just remember the address here we have one of these annoying captures to go through that's a statue that's a statue that's a statue okay so Daniel Rosal newsletter is asked let's just check over here google groups.com sorry I just because I'm used to seeing my domain here so basically what I will do now I'm just gonna quickly what you then want to do is to make sure the people who are not in the group now if you go into permissions and basic permissions if you are in g-suite now this is the gmail version you'll have a little box here at the bottom saying allowing you need to add people sender people who are not a member of the g-suite organization to post even though you already set the permission that anyone on the web can post there is an additional box here for allow people not in your g-suite domain so you might want to tick that as well if you want to be able to access the inbox from you know from something other than this primary google account so I'm just going to sign up for something random on the internet in order to demonstrate but let's just jump back quickly before we do that to the groups homepage click on my groups and there is one more thing that we need to do if you can find it groups is a bit buggy there is like two different types of group ui in existence but okay we have it now anyway so you want to go this is the default setting is that you will get you can actually go for every message or you can bundle it into 25 messages per email now if you're setting this up for accounts for getting account confirmation then if you don't receive it then you're going to have to like go into it every time okay just something worth pointing out because I use this for account signups as well but what I would do what I do do for the newsletters is I go for don't send email updates now this means that I will not be getting I will not be getting emails I will not be receiving these my inbox which is the whole purpose of this exercise then what I do is I click into the you know the actual group itself you don't need to really bother with this stuff because you're not going to be actually using it as a group and then the all important step and I'm just going to use my other keyboard here oh I'm using this as a guest account okay you would want to bookmark this essentially the URL here is very important that's where you're going to be able to actually see things so what it will do is I'll just keep it open as we don't have a bookmarks bar in this guest chrome over here now so I just do sign up for random service I just click sign up for free trial and I'm doing this because they're obviously all going to send a confirmation email and I'm just going to quickly Daniel Rotel I'm going to I spelled my name wrong again somehow or did I no I'm just going to copy in our group address and just choose a I'm just going to choose writing a password here with a few numbers and this and sign up hopefully the password will be good enough okay so I'm just going to get through all this stuff over here quickly and just me this is all fine okay so I've just signed up for not shell and what I can now do and I'm on a 14 day free trial so this can be predicted to generate some kind of email correspondence usually there'll be a verification check and let me just refresh over here no message so far just I'm just going to pause the video for one second okay just unpause the video so what I actually did the first one was a particularly bad example because it didn't actually send any email so what is instead was I search for the first thing I could find for sign up for newsletter health line have a newsletter this COVID-19 update and I click subscribe and what's happened now is as you can see the email that sent me welcoming me to their newsletter and we can go into it it's actually arrives into this collector address over here and as you can see to newsletter and just to confirm because I took away that permission and I've just changed it to the new google groups interface over here I did you just get this automatic email when you create a group but I did not receive that that the you know the welcome message to the newsletter and also any further all the this newsletter itself the the additions that they send out it's not going to touch my inbox it's just going to come straight to this group to this newsletter group so that's basically it and what I would do then is just download you know I would bookmark this URL and give it something give it a bookmark name that you can easily remember and that's it and then you can just check this you know once a week and your inbox and be your inbox and free of any you know free of any mass communications because as I said that's really my objective here so thank you for watching if you have any questions on on this video or just like to get in touch my website is danielrosil.c that's 2000rosil by the way .co.io thanks for watching