managing Pianotech content information

[Jason Kanter]

I, too, use gmail. Fortunately, my rollingball ISP allows me to set up
automatic relaying of all mail to any other email address. This allows me to
keep the rollingball address, which is my official handle, and yet to
receive ALL of my mail at my new, preferred gmail address. Gmail organizes
all my pianotech mail beautifully, and enables search very easily. For
example, all messages with the same subject are automatically stacked
together so you can see all contributors in one screen, along with the first
line of each response. And the contributors are color-coded to you can e.g.
easily spot all Del's responses. Truly a thing of beauty. And it's free.
Also, it generously allows me to send mail (such as this one) from gmail,
with the send-from address of my choice, so I still appear to the world as
jkanter at rollingball. So much better than Outlook or Outlook Express.

Jason

On 1/29/07, paul bruesch <tunergeek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just recently joined this list and started out getting periodic digest
> emails. I found that to be a very unfriendly way to read this forum, so I
> started just refreshing the monthly archive every few hours that I'm at
> home, but didn't care much for that either. Then I signed up for a gmail
> account (email by Google). Related threads get joined into one entry in my
> inbox, making it far simpler to plow thru a pile of posts. Then, if I want
> to save something for later, I can put a tag on it ( e.g. "Regulating", or
> "Temperament")... it's similar to folders, except I can assign multiple tags
> to a single email. Then I can move it to archive so it's out of my inbox.
> Most internet users are familiar with Google as a search engine, so it
> should be no surprise that Gmail archive is search-enabled, too.
>
> If it wasn't such a pain to "move" to a different email address, I'd be
> moving my regular personal email to Gmail as well. As it is, I do plan to
> start that process in the not too distant future, though I anticipate it'll
> take a while...
>
> Paul
>
> On 1/27/07, John M. Formsma <john at formsmapiano.com> wrote:
> >
> > How do you guys group the info that comes through the list so it's
> > relevant to your individual needs?  How do you make it like your own
> > personal "Tips & Tricks" that you can review at any time?
> >
> > I've been saving individual emails in threads, but they get buried
> > quickly if I save a number of posts. And I don't take time to sift
> > through them when I have 200+ emails that aren't arranged in any
> > particular order.
> >
> > Possibilities:
> > 1. Save them in a document and bookmark them by having a "Table of
> > Contents" thing with hyperlinks to the relevant text.
> > 2. Hyperlink to the archives and name the link something like "Aluminum
> > rail, stripped."
> >
> > If I use hyperlinks to the archives (which is what I'd like to do), will
> > the archives' info always retain that info at the same place? For
> > example, if I direct the hyperlink to
> > www.ptg.org/archives/relevant-info, will that "relevant-info" always be
> > stored there, or do things get renamed after a number of years?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > JF
> >
>
>


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