I’ve currently switched over to both Google Reader and Gmail in the past year, and haven’t looked back since. Both applications are the best in their respective fields, IMHO. Google has especially raised the bar with their email app Gmail, with it’s huge storage capacity, killer search, and threaded-style email.
Steve Rubel gives us a lesson in Google Productivity 101: How to turn your gmail account into your personal never center. The post gives some useful and creative tips on how to effectively store everything (and Steve means everything) with Gmail.
I’ve yet to install the Google Toolbar, but Steve recommends using it to quickly emailing uselessful links, photos, articles to your Gmail account, with has a beefy 2.8 gigs of space.
The latest version of the Google Toolbar has a send to Gmail function. Select some text or graphics, right click on it and send it to Gmail. The Toolbar then automatically feeds it into a new message.
Now, when I find something I want to save I use this feature and send it to a secret contact in my address book. This is basically a steverubel+[secretphrase]@gmail.com email address (Lifehacker explains the value of these here).
Once the article arrives in my Gmail inbox, I have a filter whisk it a way into the archive and tag it with an @Database label.
Steve also touches on using IMified to do things like blog straight from Gmail. I tried IMified out when it launched, but wasn’t really that impressed. (Granted, I didn’t play too long with it, but I did give it the ‘ol college try.)
I’ll definitely try out some of Steve’s other ideas, like storing Del.icio.us links in Gmail via Yahoo Alerts.
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Typo. You said never center, but you meant nerve center. I agree – it’s hella-cool.
I’ve been slowly switching over to Google Apps to organize. GMail has enormous potential for organizing yourself. I recently wrote a post on how I’ve started using Google Talk as a capture system and using Gmail to organize those notes into GTD contexts. Here’s the link. http://www.frugallawstudent.com/2007/02/22/google-talk-as-gtd-capture-system/
Great site! Keep up the good work!
Take care.
Brett
Google owns me!
“How to turn your gmail account into your personal never center. ”
Clever typo, or is it?
Is that a new bucket like GTD’s “Someday/Maybe”?
I put all my “nevers” in my gmail account
;-)
Hutch: Tomato/to-mah-to ;)
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