Rikki don’t lose that number;
You don’t wanna call nobody else.
Send it off in a letter to yourself.
Rikki don’t lose that number;
It’s the only one you own.
You might use it if you feel better,
When you get home.
(Lead break)
A Steely Dan classic of course but the hook here is the subject line above.
I use email to send myself notes all the time. That’s my excuse for being one of the few people who send me email. I prefer not to have those emails cluttering up my Inbox and quite often my email account is used as a switch board for these notes that I forward to other locations. For example there are all sorts of online services that give users with email addresses to send info to such as Evernote. These addresses are often long and difficult to remember so I find myself sending myself emails when I’m out and about and then forwarding it on (or copying and pasting the content) when I back at base and have access to all my resources. Obviously not very efficient.
The solution I found is to use Address tags. Some email services (e.g. Gmail) allow you to add tags to your email address. For example lets say your address is jsmith@example.com you can add a tag after the local part of the address before the @ symbol like this jsmith+tag@example.com (general systems that support Address tags recognise either the plus or hyphen character as denoting a tag). What this then means is that you can set up filters in your email to automatically file, forward or whatever you want emails with different tags so jsmith+wish@example.com could go straight to your wish-list folder and jsmith+trip@example.com could be forwarded to an online travel service &c.
