tumbler+gmail tip
I just thought that I would offer up a small tip for setting up multiple tumblr blogs on the same gmail address. The first thing you need to know is that gmail supports something called “plus” (+) addressing. What this means is that you can use a plus (+) sign in addition to your gmail address, to create an on the fly, brand new, email address. Clear as mud? Let me show you what I’m talking about
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Let’s say that your email address is
mrcool@gmail.com. You can tell tumblr (and other sites) that your email address is
mrcool+my1stumbrellaphrase@gmail.com. For your second tumblr blog, just tell them that your email address is
mrcool+my2ndumbrellaphrase@gmail.com Note the + sign in these two examples.
I just did this, and set up two tumblr blogs in about 4 minutes, on the same address. This little trick will save you the hassle of setting up 1000 seperate gmail accounts, one per niche, that you have to log into seperately. Use this tip for signing up to newsletters, or anything else that you want.
Part two of the tip is this: in your gmail account, there is a thing called “labels”.
Go into your gmail settings, and set up a filter that will direct
mrcool+my1stumbrellaphrase@gmail.com into a label called my1stumbrellaphrase. Now, whenever you get mail at that address, it is automatically filed for you, and you know exactly what it is about!
Bonus tip: use
mrcool+junk@gmail.com for anything that you have to sign up for, but don’t want to, like one of those annoying sites that demand a sign-up before they let you into the forums. Set up a filter that drops it into your trash or spam folder.
One note: substitute “mrcool” for your email address please, otherwise the real “mrcool” will come and do some very uncool things to me for sponsoring the bombardment of his address
Hope this helps!
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