Don’t you wish there was an easy way to archive the thousands of conversations you have every day? Now you can with email. Create a searchable, personal email archive of all of the random information that you gather throughout the day. Sure, you may feel like the information isn’t important now, but it could be…
I’ve tried various ways to keep a journal, and right now I use both Gmail and WordPress to journal. For today, I’m going to focus on using Gmail to journal. The workflow for using Gmail to journal is pretty simple. To add a journal entry, you will email a special address. To delete an entry,…
This is part 11 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. I’ll be the first one to tell you my memory is terrible, especially with interactions during the day. Of course at the moment I believe I’ll remember it, but a day later and it’s already gone. This is my reason for setting up a journal…
Over the years I’ve played around with easy ways to collect and search information, but never really satisfied with the outcome. Last week I had the idea to try to use GMail as a journal, and so far it is working pretty well. Why GMail? I wanted something that was frictionless to use. What do…