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?

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm not sure. I don't think Gmail can tell a Gspace file from any other piece of email. It seems to interpret all of my files as email attachments.