Using GMail for files

As a college student I am often bouncing around from PC to PC as I go through my day on campus. This often means when I want to work on a project in between classes, I end up emailing it to myself and keeping it in my inbox. GMail, of-course, lends itself to this quite nicely. With it’s search, star, and label features, as well as close to 3GB of storage, you can make a nice file server out of GMail.

Up until just recently, I have been emailing myself these documents with some fake subject and body text just to make the process faster. However, since you can easily search your mail, there is a better way. What I have been doing recently, and plan to do with past assignments, is in the subject put the name of the project, attach the project and in the body of the email use comma separated key words. For example, if I wrote a PHP program for my Web Dev class that uploaded images and emailed myself the PHP file. The subject would be “Image Uploader” and in the body of the email would be “PHP, Web Dev class, school, project” etc. This makes it infinitely easier to go back later and search for something you may have lost. Later!