I've put a lot of effort lately into gathering up all of my "stuff" and
properly filing it away.  All of the physical paper things are fairly
well taken care of, but I was struggling on what to do with all of the
digital "stuff".  All the pdf, work, excel, etc... documents laying
around on my hard drive, network drives, usb keys that needed to be
easily found.

I've been trying out a lot of different things, but so far the thing
that is working the best for me is Gmail. The search capabilities are
great and it is available everywhere there is an internet connection.

I sent one of my 50 remaining Gmail invites to myself and created
another seperate Gmail account just for storing documents.

So now when I get a document that I need to save for later use I attach
it to an e-mail it to this account.

To make searching a bit more simple I fill up the subject line of the
e-mail with "tags" (think del.icio.us or flickr) related to the
file, and the body with a brief description of the document's
contents.

I'm giving it a trial run now, and so far it works pretty well.

Potential problems:

* Gmail accounts give you 1 gigabyte of space. What happens when you
hit this ceiling? However I'm thinking doing a good purge every so
often should keep this from happening (to me at least) anytime soon.
* Security? No one has my account password (hopefully) but still my
documents are "out there".

Sorry if this has already been posted here before.

--austin