Hey Steemians. Me and my cats are very busy tonight being Friday and all, but decided to drop in and post for you guys.
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This is a cool trick I recently learned and it saves you from ever having to create a dummy email address or use a disposable email address service, both of which can be very inconvenient. This comes in handy when signing up for the same service multiple times.
So, the trick is as easy as this: If you need a new e-mail address in a pinch, just put a period anywhere in your gmail username - it's treated as a unique email address but you'll receive the emails to your regular inbox.
Example:
- If your regular email is [email protected], just use [email protected], [email protected], etc. etc. if you need another account on any service.
- The emails will go to your regular inbox. Amazing!
I posted this on Reddit and it got a great response, but was taken down for being off topic for the subreddit (not /r/lifehacks material, apparently) but before it was taken down, a Redditor left this EVEN BETTER tip which grants you basically unlimited unique email addresses for life:
Additionally, if you'd like to source emails sent from a specific company, add a "+whatever" to the username portion of your email address.
For example, I sign up for new Twitter accounts using the same gmail account, but can track which account they're emailing about by looking at the email address used:
[email protected] [email protected]
Both still arrive in the [email protected] inbox. Gmail ignores anything after the plus sign just like it ignores periods.
You can track which companies are sharing your email address with this method too. Or setup custom filters and routing too.
Pretty simple! I thought I was pretty internet savvy after two decades of being online, yet I only learned this trick just recently.
If one person who reads this finds this info useful, I've done my job. Take care and have a Steemy weekend ~
That is an awesome tip! Just tested both methods and they really work! Thank you so much for taking the time to share this lifehack!
Thanks! You're that one person who found this useful, glad to share. Wish Id known about it years ago 😂
I didn't know about this, upvoted and thanks. Now I need to check out if (I'm not using gmail) other free email providers act the same, such as @gmx.com and @mail.com
Cool, a lifehack that actually works, and is demonstrably useful. Thanks!
Upvoted and ReSteemed...
So cool and useful I even resteemed it! Thank you!
Another lifehack I learned (and, yes, that WAS a lifehack you shared...so, meh on reddit ☺) is that if you want to read an article at a site that wants you to subscribe first, copy the link and paste it in to archive.is. I think some places may have caught on, because it doesn't work for me every time, but helpful when it does!
This is super cool, never heard of this.