Using Gmail as Your On-line Brain
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Steve Rubel posted a couple of pieces this week on using Gmail features —coupled with other services— as a personal nerve centre. As a couple of these tips provided solutions to things I have been toying with, I quickly set them up. (Quickly not only refers to my response time, but that most of these tips are easy to implement.)
Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center covers:
- How to turn Gmail into a massive personal database (Gmail + the Google Toolbar)
- How to get real-time news updates in Gmail (Gmail+ Google Talk + Twitter)
- How to automatically store your bookmarks in Gmail (Gmail + del.icio.us + Yahoo Alerts)
- How to manage Calendar and To-Dos in Gmail (Gmail + Backpack + GCal + GTalk + iMified)
- How to blog from Gmail (Gmail + Wordpress/TypePad/Blogger + IMified)
More Ways to Use Gmail as a Personal Nerve Center covers:
- Create a Mobile Searchable Database of PDFs (Gmail + Adobe PDF Conversion by Email)
- Archive Your Weblog and Comments and Make Them Searchable (Gmail + FeedBurner/FeedBlitz)
- Import a Searchable Version of Your Calendar (Gmail + Google/Yahoo/MSN Calendar)
- Build a Weather or Sports Almanac (Gmail + Windows Live Alerts)
- A round up of other ideas
If you’re using Gmail and have loads of your storage space available —I still have 87% after 3 years of use— these tips can make Gmail much more than just an e-mail system.
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