HOW TO delete an email address from GMail auto-complete list without deleting Contact

Supposedly friendly features like spell-check & auto-completion can be a bane sometimes. Imagine if your boss & best friend share the same name & you excitedly send a very private message to the boss instead of the friend because GMail cleverly fills the email address while you type a few characters of the name. If such a scenario rings a bell, here is one option to prevent GMail from supplying names you don't want to see in the email auto-complete list that appears while composing a mail.

The easy way is to delete the contact. But if you want to prevent an email address from showing up in GMail auto-complete list when you try names in the To:, CC: or BCC: fields, then you can consider moving the email address from the Email field in the form for that Contact to the Notes field.

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HOW TO make Gmail Labels act like Hotmail Folders

If you apply a Label to an email in Gmail, it will appear under both the Inbox & the Label category chosen. This is unlike in Hotmail where an email can appear only under one Folder category.

To address this issue, Gmail introduced a "Move to" option that will place an email under a single Label or category. This option can help in maintaining a clutter-free, cleaner Gmail Inbox but requires manual intervention. A poster on the StackExchange Web Apps forum wanted to know how he can automatically filter emails on arrival so that they are placed under a single category as in Hotmail.

Here are the steps -
1. Click on the "Create a Filter" link that's next to search box in Gmail

2. As we want the filter to act upon ALL emails that are recieved, set the To: textbox to your own email address & click on the "Next Step" button

3. Choose the first option to Skip the Inbox alongwith "Apply the label:" option to move an incoming email to a specific label/category. This way every mail that you get will be automatically categorized, thereby simulating Hotmail Folders.

If you want to view all your emails uncategorized at any point of time,  click on the "All Mail" option in the left menu

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Free Web-based TO-DO list tools/Task Managers

If you need a free web-based TO-DO list tool/Task Manager to stay organized, there are a bunch to choose from -

• Ta-da List
• Todoist
• Voo2do
• Remember the Milk
• Toodledo
• Producteev
• Good Todo
• Checkvist
• Paprika
• Springpad
• Todo.ly   
• GMail Tasks

The Toodledo site has a nice features comparison chart that explains typical functionalities offered by these tools. Knowing about these can help you find the best-fit for your needs.

I've been using the Tasks feature within GMail for quite sometime as a seperate account is not required. I only recently noticed that a new GMail Tasks entry can be created for an email by clicking the "More Actions" button in the Inbox header and selecting the "Add to tasks" option for an email that needs to be tracked as a task.

Also see:
Free OCR Tools
Free ASP.NET based CMS

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