 Hello everyone this is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. Today I will have another episode of Chromebook Tips and Tricks video and I'll talk about how to use Chromebook Offline. So if you have a Chromebook and if you haven't used your Chromebook Offline yet there's way you can use your Chromebook Offline and you have to just go through a few simple settings change which I'll show you today. You'll be able to use most of the important applications offline for example your Gmail you can browse web or read websites and you can use some apps and you can use Google Drive under which you will be able to use Google Docs, Google Spreadsheet and Google Slides. So I'm going to start with Gmail first and then we'll move over to the other applications one by one. So the first thing you need to do you're gonna have to open your Gmail which you can open on your Gmail app so if you click on it so once you have your Gmail app then what you need to do for the first time that you're going to click on the wheel button which is right here so if you click on it and then it's going to give you the quick setting and then under quick settings you're going to click on see all settings and then once you have that then you're going to see a page with lots of options so if you look very carefully you're going to see right here is that offline tab and if you just click on it then you can see that there's an option to enable offline mail. You are seeing it checked right now because I checked it but you know if this is your first time this is going to be unchecked and then you're gonna have to just you know check it and then you might see a few other options that you know for how many days you need to keep the email so I chose seven but there's other option for example like 3 30 or 90 and then you're gonna have to just you know select whether keep offline data on my computer or remove offline data from my computer so if you just read this carefully and choose that and then you're gonna have to you know save changes and once you do that then you can use Gmail offline for example right now I'm going to just close it just one important note that whenever you'd like to use something offline you have to create a shortcut or you have to create a bookmark for it so for example for email I put it on the email shelf and you can just do it easily by going to email and then our Gmail and then when you you know press on it you can see that you know here you can see that it's mentioning on pin from shelf but if you didn't put it on shelf then you can just you'll see here pin to shelf so you have to just choose that option and then this is going to be available later on when you're not connected to internet or the other option also create a bookmark just by pressing control and D and then you know it's going to put a bookmark on your bookmark bar so that way you will have you know access to it later on so right now I'll just you know log off the internet and you can see that if I let me just close this one first and you will see that right here so you can see that I'm connected to internet but let me just you know disconnect so you're seeing that message here that not connected and I'm going to just you know click on Gmail on the shelf and you can see that you know this is loading so this is my Gmail I'm not showing the inbox due to privacy reasons but you know the email is working and you can see that you know the offline sign is on so that means you know I'm not offline right now and let's say if I want to compose an email so just hit on compose and you can see that you know it's giving me the new message so what happens if you write a message and if you go through all the process so and you send the message it's just going to save on the computer and then once it's connected to online then it will save it so that's how it works here are the instructions again you have to open Gmail on Chrome and then you have to go through the gear settings all settings and then you have to check the box offline and you know once you do that you'll see some few other options which you know just go through very carefully and choose which one you like and then you'll be able to use Gmail offline the next one I'll talk about is the Google Docs sheets and slides offline and how to do that so in order to in order to do that the first thing you're going to be doing is that you have to install Google Docs offline extension and then you're going to go to Google Drive settings and from there you have to turn on the offline option and it would show only recent files but you know you can actually look at any files or anything by going to each file individually or and make them available to use for offline or to use for online use just another note here same like Google Gmail that you know you have to bookmark or create a shortcut for Google Drive otherwise once you go offline you're gonna be able to use that so the first thing you're gonna be doing is go to Google Web Store and then search for Google Docs offline and then install but if you're seeing this message that removed from Chrome that means that you already have installed this and then you know that means you don't need to install but if you see here add to Chrome message that means that you know you have to install from here so once you install that then what you're gonna be doing is that you have to open Google Drive and then once you have Google Drive you can go to the gear icon right here and then if you click on it then you know go to settings and then from here you can see that the offline option is checked which is right here and you might get some other messages here so you have to just you know check those I cannot see that anymore because I checked it a long time before but this part where it says offline this is where you're gonna be you know checking to make it offline and then once done you can hit done and you can save Google Drive by creating a shortcut you can do it by hitting Ctrl D or you can just you know go to here just like we did before and then if you just you know add it to your shelf you can do that as well so once you do that so what I'm going to do right now I'm going to just you know go offline again and we'll try to open Google Drive and see if it works okay so you can see that you know I'm offline so let's go back to Google Drive and you can see that you know it's opening Google Drive although I'm offline which is right here so it's just taking a few seconds and then here you can see that you know some of the articles which are highlighted so these articles actually or these you know items are available for you to access offline for example let me just take a look at here I'm going to click on this and you can see that you know I can view my Google Doc item offline and although I'm of you know not connected to internet which you can see right now so I'll just close this one and then let's say if you'd like to see anything else or more items for offline view if I long press here you can see that you know this is not available offline so in order to make it available offline you have to just check that button or slide that button and then you'll be able to access that offline what I just mentioned you to access Google Drive offline it only works for Google Documents for example Google Docs Google spreadsheets or Google Slides but if you have a files which are not one of those three then for example PDF or zip files or MP3 then you'll not be able to see them online by you know going to Google Drive so you have to follow a different step for those so what do you have to do on your Chromebook app and go to files app which is right here so if I click on it and open it and then click on Google Drive which is going to be on the lower left and here you're going to see all your files and everything and let's say you're looking to view a PDF file offline we're going to choose this PDF file and then if you right click on it so here you're seeing that option that available offline and you have to check that option so if you do that then let's right click again and you can see that the available offline option is checked and now you can view this file by going to after that you can view this file when you go to files and just you know get to the file and click on it so that's how you can view other files which are not specific like Google Docs spreadsheets or slides our next item is how to save or how to view web pages for offline users so this is very simple you have to save web pages and then you know once you do that I'll show you how to do it and I'll show you how you can access them offline so let's say you have a website or a web page and you'd like to view you offline so what you need to do you need to right click on the website and then see the option save as so if you click on it so now here is giving you the option to save this page as web page single file and under this extension mhtml so you're going to just keep everything as is and here just to you know for easy access later on you can actually create a new folder and then you can just name that folder as a you know offline websites so for example if I just put offline and then you can see that you know what I'll do I'll just you know now save okay so now we can see that you know the page has been saved and what I'll do I'll just you know go offline now and you can see that you know I'm offline and now we have to just you know find what you saved so you can easily find that by going to your files and so if I go there so let's just you know check get rid of this first and if I go to the application files and if I go to downloads and then if I go to new folder and then offline sites and then if I go to here then here's the file I saved now if I click here then it should bring up the website offline and you can see that I'm offline right now so just click on here so now you can see that you know I have that website although I'm offline but you know it is working so you can just save any website this way and you can access them later on just a note that the application pocket or this is an app you can you know save anything in the pocket and it's much easier to view offline if you're just like you know going to that article or site from the pocket application so that's another way of doing it let's move on to the next topic so the next we'll talk about how to use offline apps so before you do that what you need to do you have to go to Chromebook Chrome Web Store so once you go to Chrome Web Store then you're gonna look for apps which is right here and then you're going to look for offline apps by checking the box and then you can you know see all the apps which will work offline so right now you're looking at Chrome Web Store which you have it right here so if you see here here like an options extension themes apps so if you click on apps and then if you scroll up a little bit then you're gonna see the box runs offline so if you click on this feature then now you can see that you know it's giving you all the apps which works offline so if you installed any of these apps then you know they work offline you don't have to worry about anything so there's so many apps offline but you know some app I like most for example pocket which I mentioned before this let's see like you know view any web pages or website you save inside pocket and this is free and then you can have Netflix Spotify Prime video so if you have Prime video you can just you know download movies or TV series and you can just you know add them later offline but you know these are not limited to only these four there's so many apps that work offline and you can see that it's kind of like an endless and then you can even have Google keeps or other applications to use offline the offline feature gives you endless possibilities to use your Chromebook when you're on the road or you're traveling or even like you know you're at home and you don't have internet access or you somehow you lost connection and by using you know these settings and techniques you can work offline and you can be more productive and get more out of your Chromebook this way thank you for watching this video forget about subscribing this channel forget about liking this video there'll be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you