Now that I am done with my finals at MC IIUM, I can concentrate on my blog. My exams went well, I hope the results will be good too.
Okay back to Gmail, since I started my free backlinks giveaway contest, I have been getting lots of emails in my Gmail. Since these emails are all contest related, they contain review links in them. So they were kinda “to-do emails”. I had to find a solution to arrange them properly and to mark them, which one is done and which one is to be published in the next batch.
I think I found a solution, at least it’s working for now. Here is what I did:
- 1. Created a filter (Gmail’s replacement for folders) with the name “Free Backlinks”.
- 2. Marked all contest related emails with the above filter.
- 3. Star‘red the emails which had to be published (when they are done, I removed the stars).
This simple procedure allows me to keep track and manage all my contest related emails. All happens right inside Gmail, I don’t have to use some other to-do related software. I thought I would share it with you, do let me know if you use Gmail for things other than email (besides using it as a back-up repository).
Congrats on the finals. I am about to take mine next week and am learning that calculus was created by the devil, a witch or some other evil entity. Anyway, I do the same thing with my gmail account. I have labels for work, school, friends and family emails. Then I star everything I still need to respond to. The best thing is that this helps me easily go to those labels and search back for an old email.