Keeping Notes with Gmail
February 16th, 2007There are several noteworthy annotating applications available today, including free and platform-independent applications like Google Notebook. However, nothing beats a solution as simple as composing and sending a quick email to myself, something I am certain I shall get back to, instead of maintaining a whole separate application (or bookmarklet, or browser plugin) to check in addition to email. Hey, even Steve Jobs confessed to doing it this way at last year’s WWDC conference, and revealed that Apple’s Mail app (on OS X Leopard) is going to have a Notes feature that works exactly like this.
As a heavy Gmail user, I have a setup in place that is quite similar and functionally equivalent. I have a Notes label that gets applied through a filter, to every email that I send myself. This way, I can rid the inbox of several unread Notes, and at the same time get a quick indicator in the labels section on the left. Jim’s Tips (which is a great collection if you’re relatively new to Gmail, by the way) has a slightly more elegant solution where they talk about using a custom Contact to use exclusively for sending notes to yourself.
