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Gmail - pimp your inbox to create personal knowledge database
Here's how. First, forget about using the cumbersome label feature altogether. You will be using the filters and tags instead. As you will be sending yourself emails to seed your database, you will need to set up a filter so these emails are auto archived and marked as read and don't junk up your inbox.
When you find information you want to add to your database, you will email it to yourself (Rubel uses Ubiquity, a Firefox add on) with a special tag you add to the prefix. For example, youremail+mortgage crisis@gmail.com, if say you wanted to have access to a great article on the housing melt down. The email won't hit your inbox, but you can find it doing a search by its tag.
Then, to make your tags easy to find, use Gmail Quick Links, a Gmail Labs feature which bookmarks common Gmail views. This allows you to create a shortcut to any bookmarkable URL in Gmail. You need to enable this feature in your Gmail settings, found under the Labs tab.
If you live in your Gmail, this might be a great option for you to bookmark and search massive quantities of information all from the comfort of your home on the web, your inbox.
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Victor said 7:34AM on 9-18-2008
Err, how about linking to Ubiquity and those Labs features instead of to your tag list?
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Dolores Parker said 7:35AM on 9-18-2008
D'oh! Thanks Victor. All fixed.
http:mytechieself.blogspot.com200807open-source-compression-with-7-zip.html said 6:41AM on 9-19-2008
also, emailing "yourself+mortgagecrisis@gmail.com" is not going to work. The space will make an invalid email address. It will need to be yourself+mortgage_crisis@gmail.com or something similar.
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Girish R rao said 7:42PM on 12-14-2008
Hw to download all the contents from inbox sent items into word file or note pad?
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