All posts by Vinay Patankar

17 Best Gmail Extensions that Make Email Super Easy

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The best Gmail extensions in 2026 are not the ones that pile novelty into your inbox. Gmail already handles more drafting, scheduling, and search natively than it used to. The extensions that still matter are the ones that close the workflow gaps Gmail still handles badly: CRM context, task capture, follow-up, shared inbox routing, outbound volume, encryption, and focus. If you are trying to improve day-to-day inbox performance first, this pairs well with a broader email productivity system. The goal is to make email super easy again without turning your inbox into a pile of disconnected tools.

That matters because Gmail is still where a lot of operational work starts. Leads arrive there. Approvals get requested there. Customers reply there. Handoffs get buried there. If you only optimize the message layer, you still end up doing manual follow-up and status chasing. That is where a workflow system like Process Street becomes useful: extensions can improve the inbox, but repeatable work still needs a system that can assign owners, enforce approvals, and prove what happened.

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How to Create SOP Templates

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An SOP template is a reusable document that standardizes how a procedure is written, followed, and enforced. Instead of starting from scratch every time, you build the template once and run it for every new instance of the process.

Creating SOP templates that actually get followed requires more than a blank document. You need clear structure, defined steps, assigned owners, and a system that enforces execution. This guide walks through the process step by step, from defining the procedure to building a template your team will use consistently.

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10 Top HIPAA Policies and Procedures Templates to Manage Compliance

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There is no way around HIPAA rules.

If your organization touches protected health information, HIPAA compliance is not optional. You need policies, procedures, training, documentation, and repeatable workflows that show the right steps were followed.

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Evolving Processes in Lean Startups

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Communicating new and evolving processes to a growing team is one of the hardest parts of running a lean operation. That is one of the reasons I built Process Street.

When you are scaling fast, everything changes. New tools, new channels, new data sources, new optimization strategies. With so much new information coming in, processes are constantly evolving.

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14 Ways Your Team Can Boost Productivity While Working From Home

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This guide was written by Mauricio Prinzlau. Mauricio is the CEO of Cloudwards.net, a data and user feedback driven comparison engine for cloud apps and services. He enjoys writing and producing educational videos around the cloud to help people find the best cloud service for their needs.

So, you’ve given your employees the option of working from home. It can still be a win-win situation, but only when the team has the right structure to boost productivity while working from home.

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12 Mobile Keyword Ranking Tips: Optimize Your ASO and Paid Search Strategies

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Mobile keyword ranking is the practice of tracking where an app appears for the searches people run in the Apple App Store and Google Play. It connects ASO keyword research, app-store listing quality, competitor monitoring, and paid search into one operating rhythm.

The app market is still crowded, but the work has changed. App Annie became data.ai in 2022, then Sensor Tower acquired data.ai in 2024. Apple Ads now gives keyword recommendations, search popularity, estimated installs, spend, average CPA, and impression-share signals. That means mobile keyword ranking is no longer just a list of keywords. It is a repeatable workflow for choosing, validating, defending, and improving app-store demand across organic ASO and paid search strategies.

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12 Inspection Checklists to Maximize Safety in the Workplace

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Inspection checklists help teams maximize safety without turning every inspection into guesswork. They give inspectors, managers, and operators a repeatable way to check conditions, capture evidence, and assign follow-up before small issues become expensive problems.

Use this pack to choose the right inspection checklist for the job, then run it in Process Street as a workflow. Each workflow can collect structured responses, attach photos or notes, route corrective actions, and keep a record your team can review later in Reports.

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16 COVID-19 Procedures for Hospitals (According to Clinical Experience from FAHZU)

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This article compiles 16 COVID-19 Procedures for Hospitals according to clinical experience from FAHZU, based on the 2020 Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment from The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine.

The templates below are operational examples for hospitals and medical centers designing infection prevention and control workflows, patient-placement procedures, PPE steps, disinfection routines, waste handling, exposure response, and discharge follow-up. They should be reviewed against current WHO, CDC, national, local, and facility-specific guidance before use.

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How a Checklist Saved Boeing from Bankruptcy and Helped Win World War II

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On a foggy morning at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio on October 30, 1935, a flight competition was held for the top airplane manufacturers to win a tender from the U.S. Army Air Corps for the next-generation long-range bomber.

Boeing Corporation’s Model 299, a cutting edge aluminum-alloy plane that could fly faster, farther and carry five times as many bombs as the army had requested, was sure-fire to win. Nicknamed the “flying fortress”, historians stated this competition was held as a mere formality, with Boeing almost guaranteed to secure an order of at least sixty-five aircraft.

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21 Evernote Templates & Workflows That Skyrocket Your Productivity

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Evernote templates are reusable note structures for work you repeat: meeting notes, project plans, marketing calendars, client records, incident notes, and lightweight personal workflows.

They are still useful when you need a clean place to capture information fast. The best Evernote templates workflows combine a reusable note with a clear next step. They are not a full workflow system, but they can give recurring work enough structure that you do not start from a blank note every time.

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