Gmail permalinks and email as a data store

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Posted by Gorski
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:20 AM

I consider any information management software seriously flawed if it doesn’t support permalinks. Now Gmail supports them:

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-11-17-n25.html

That will make it much more useful as an adjunct to Zoot, OneNote, Brainstorm, etc. Combined with its 6 gb of free storage, maybe I’ll start storing all my data there ...

Anybody out there making serious use of email for information storage? If so, how are you using it?

Posted by Jonathan Probber
Nov 19, 2007 at 02:30 PM

I uses a Firefox add-on called Gspace, which allows you to treat Gmail as an FTP server. I backup all of my important files to Gmail using Gspace.

Posted by jimspoon
Nov 20, 2007 at 09:59 PM

Thanks for the info on permalinks.

Another Google development you might be interested in - Google Notebook now supports tags.

I don’t think tags are the greatest way of categorizing notes, but they make the notebook a lot more useful than the mere ability to store notes in different notebooks.

Posted by jimspoon
Nov 20, 2007 at 10:00 PM

Jonathan Probber wrote:
>I uses a Firefox add-on called Gspace, which allows you to treat Gmail as an FTP server.
>I backup all of my important files to Gmail using Gspace.

That’s interesting. If Gmail can be used as an FTP server, I suppose we could set up Gmail accounts to be used solely for that purpose - and it could be used for large file transfer by anybody with the account name and password.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 21, 2007 at 12:32 PM

For those of us not on Firefox, there is a stand-alone alternative to Gspace here:

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

One should bear in mind that such tools may cease working at any minute if Google chooses not to support them.

alx

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