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Gmail to Claude: Line Breaks Disappear on Paste (Fix)

Wednesday, 2026.03.18 J.D. H. Leave a comment

TL;DR: When you copy text from Gmail and paste it into Claude (or Claude Code), all your line breaks disappear and the text runs together into one giant wall of text. The fix: right-click and choose “Paste as plain text” (or press Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows/Linux, Cmd+Shift+V on Mac). Your line breaks will be preserved. The Problem You’re working in Claude and need to paste an email from Gmail. You copy the text, hit Ctrl+V, and… all your carefully formatted paragraphs

Google Gmail Auto Responder date selection

Friday, 2014.02.28 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Yesterday I was setting up my Gmail vacation responder (Gmail -> Settings -> General -> Vacation Responder) and the date started at July 20th, 2011! Apparently it had been 3 years since I last used the feature 🙂 At first glance I thought I was going to have to click the >> Month button about 30 times. :-(Thankfully after a while I eventually discovered the ‘Today’ link at the bottom of the calendar. Of course clicking THAT link will jump

iPad Air cannot access (hotmail) mail server?! [SOLVED]

Tuesday, 2013.11.19 J.D. H. One comment

Q. My new iPad Air stopped downloading my Microsoft Hotmail and now I am stuck at about a month ago on my email! I have it set to download all time email in my settings yet every time I try to download it says something like ‘cannot connect to mail server’. Any ideas? -Ian G. A. Hi Ian, I am sorry to hear about your Hotmail problem. 🙁 It seems that in iOS7 there are a number of issues with

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Gmail Blue, TOO advanced?

Monday, 2013.04.01 J.D. H. Leave a comment

It has been unbelievably hard to use such a groundbreaking product as Gmail Blue and not be able to tell the world about it. Now that the NDA has been lifted, I can finally talk a little about Gmail Blue. Before the full review and benchmarks, which I am sure many other sites will have as well, I feel a word of warning is in order: +Sure, I love Gmail Blue. It really is light years ahead of the competition. Nobody else has that much Blue. Period. -So what

Gmail now adds unsubscribe options for spam

Monday, 2013.01.21 J.D. H. Leave a comment

While marking some spam today in Gmail, I was surprised to find that it automatically offers an ‘unsubscribe’ option! Pretty cool 🙂 I love new Gmail innovations and I give this one a 5 out of 5 stars… Top Search Terms:gmail spam options (2)gmail how to unsubscribe from spam (1)gmail unsubscribe options (1)mark hotmail or yahoomail or rocketmail or gmail 50..100 (1)unsubscribe options (1)