Gmail: Email migration complete

Since moving from Apple Mail to Gmail a couple weeks ago, I've been slowly migrating my old Mail mail over to Gmail (it's pretty simple, using this

technique

, but it's time consuming). This morning I finished importing a lot of my old mail--everything that was in Apple Mail (which is more than I thought I'd be able to do). I have some older files in various formats, possibly readable, going back to 1990, but so far I haven't done anything with them. (I actually have the first email I sent on my yalevm account in 1990!).

I've also been trying to come up with neat things to do on Gmail. Thanks to Tom

I discovered Gspace, though I haven't yet made much use of it (apart from getting my sending privileges taken away for 24 hours because I accidentally shipped myself hundreds of files).

I have realized that Gmail can be used easily to keep track of any sort of information one wants to keep--birthdays, addresses, phone numbers, etc. As for to-do lists, Remember the Milk

has a Firefox add-on

that will add a to-do list to the right side of your screen. Theoretically convenient, though I don't think I'll be using it. (What I like is a simple iGoogle to-do list

that allows you to check off items and have them appear crossed off--though some improvements could be made on this as well.) Given the great searchability of Gmail, I've realized that I no longer need the private blog I'd set up to write notes to myself about the comings and goings of books in my library. (Said blog was a replacement for book organization software I'd been using previously, Booxter

and LibraryThing

. The latter I still use, but Booxter I realized was too much for my needs, and I no longer felt comfortable with it after an upgrade some time ago.)

To write notes to myself about books, I can just type some short message in the subject line of a new note, addressed to myself, and send, e.g., "Ian Hocking, Déjà Vu -- arrived 3/19/08 -- smells of chocolate." One could do this with anything--books lists, phone numbers, whatever--and if you wanted to, you could easily make a filter to add a label to such notes. For books, for example, you'd just write yourself at gmail.address+books@gmail.com

, then create a filter that automatically adds the label "books" to notes sent to that address. Obviously, all this will be searchable, but also, when you pull up your books label all that information will appear neatly in a list with the subject lines visible.

But I'm sure I'm missing a lot. What other interesting things are people doing out there with Gmail?