I want to be tech-savvy. Oh, I do. But the ever-changing, ever-upgrading world of the internets confuddles me on my best days, sometimes. I know that there are "social bookmark" places like Del.Ici.Ous and other ways of storing your bookmarks online, or saving that special article or recipe you want to keep track of. I'm hopeless with all that.
Instead, I've started taking advantage of Gmails HUGE capacity plus handy dandy search-mail function. If I want to remember something, I just email it to my Gmail address, tagging it appropriately. Then, when I need it again, I just type in a keyword or two in the online search box and what do you know - there it is! No need to make folders, no need to remember another website and it's password combo, no need to remember anything but the email service I already use most of the time.
And that Works For Me!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
WFMW: Gmail as a brain dump
Categories: Works For Me Wednesday
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I do this too! I love that I can search through emails from years ago that might have the password in them! LOL!
I do this, too. Now, if only they would add a feature to deliver mail at a specific time, so I could e-mail myself a reminder that I have to reschedule an appointment or send a birthday card to Aunt June, and have it arrive the date and time I need to remember it.
I love your EASY and SIMPLE organising solution - I'm all about the quick and easy too :)
Marcia, Organising Queen
This is a good idea. I *do* love me some del.icio.us but this works just as well!
Amy:
You could try a service like this:
http://www.futureme.org/
I haven't tried it, but I knew that there are things like this out there.
If you have a Google account, you will love the Google Notebook. Once you've installed the plugin (they walk you through it), you just highlight the text you want to note and right click and select Note this and it plops it right into the notebook and includes a link to the page it was from. You can organize the notebook into categories and tags, and you can search your notebook just like with Gmail. I use it all the time!
good idea! I like Google notebook myself.
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