webponce rants

I use gmail all the time, both personally and at work. I have my personal domain forwarding all email to my gmail account, and equally my work accounts do the same. This allows me to use gmail as a webmail client (because our work exchange webmail is oh so lame), AND (here's the killer app bit) my past however many years of work email is completely archived and searchable. This is increasingly becoming useful as people ask me the same question six months on, I can refer back to the original reply i sent them, along with a sarcastic remark along the lines of "you asked me this six months ago, here was my response then". Where the wiki fails, gmail kicks in and helps out.

Google have recently added SWFAddress style permalinks to each mail as well, so if you don't want to keep all of the detail of the thread in a wiki or document, you can now just link directly to the email discussion, et voila, there is your sarcastic remark material. Brilliant for moody matthew moments.

You can email/save/bookmark searches:

http://mail.google.com/mail/#search/what+is+the+wifi+password

You can email/save/bookmark label queries for quick lookups:

http://mail.google.com/mail/#label/sarcasticresponses

You can link directly to an email

http://mail.google.com/mail/#all/123895043859034

brilliant!

Probably not ideal for sharing, as its all material which is behind your authenticated account, but great for personal access to information.

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