Austin Moody wrote:
> 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