New Google Notes Feature: Automated Email Backups
Google Notes is now capable of performing automatic email backups; you can receive daily, weekly, or monthly emails containing snapshots of your notepad. This is useful in general for keeping archived copies of your notes, and in the event that we have any downtime, you can at least have a recent backup copy of your notes.
To activate automatic backups for your notepad(s), we ask that you donate $1/month or $10/year to support Google Notes. By donating (via the button in the column to the right), you help ensure that we can continue to provide consistent, long-term service.
If you are unable to (or choose not to) donate, you can still create backups manually by clicking the "backup to email" button for your notepad. However, the automatic backup option exists to ensure consistent archiving with no added effort.
To receive automatic backups, click the "backup to email" button for your notepad. From your email account, reply to the backup email. In the reply, please include your email address, category name (in quotes in the first line of the backup email), and the desired frequency of backup (daily, weekly, or monthly).
One last tip for anyone who uses email backups, it may be useful to add a filter to prevent them from filling up your inbox. In Gmail, to automatically filter your notes, take the following steps:
Near the search box at the top of Gmail is a link for "add filter". Click it and a small form should display. Fill in the "From:" field with "david.hoelscher+googlenotes@gmail.com" and fill in the "Subject:" field with "Google Notes Snapshot". Run a test search to make sure this picks up the right emails, and click next step.
On the next form, you will probably want to check "Skip the Inbox (Archive it)" and "Apply the label". You may want to create a new label like "Google Notes" so you can quickly pull up a list of your note backups. Click "Create Filter" and you're all set up and ready.
Google Notes is now capable of performing automatic email backups; you can receive daily, weekly, or monthly emails containing snapshots of your notepad. This is useful in general for keeping archived copies of your notes, and in the event that we have any downtime, you can at least have a recent backup copy of your notes.
To activate automatic backups for your notepad(s), we ask that you donate $1/month or $10/year to support Google Notes. By donating (via the button in the column to the right), you help ensure that we can continue to provide consistent, long-term service.
If you are unable to (or choose not to) donate, you can still create backups manually by clicking the "backup to email" button for your notepad. However, the automatic backup option exists to ensure consistent archiving with no added effort.
To receive automatic backups, click the "backup to email" button for your notepad. From your email account, reply to the backup email. In the reply, please include your email address, category name (in quotes in the first line of the backup email), and the desired frequency of backup (daily, weekly, or monthly).
One last tip for anyone who uses email backups, it may be useful to add a filter to prevent them from filling up your inbox. In Gmail, to automatically filter your notes, take the following steps:
Near the search box at the top of Gmail is a link for "add filter". Click it and a small form should display. Fill in the "From:" field with "david.hoelscher+googlenotes@gmail.com" and fill in the "Subject:" field with "Google Notes Snapshot". Run a test search to make sure this picks up the right emails, and click next step.
On the next form, you will probably want to check "Skip the Inbox (Archive it)" and "Apply the label". You may want to create a new label like "Google Notes" so you can quickly pull up a list of your note backups. Click "Create Filter" and you're all set up and ready.
posted by infinityis at 4:55 AM
4 Comments:
First,thanks for your sweet gadget.i want to remove these words "New: Automated Email Backups",possible?because it is too width(300x203) for my blog(allowed 220px width only,but it have double scrolls bar),and another issue is how can i change font.(not size)
Hi,
great gadget I found it very useful.
The only thing I don't like are the icons a bit oversized.
If you want, you could use these "repaired icon" I updated from yours. Feel free to use them, it would be nice.
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9624/image2jy3.png
infinity notes seems to like switching my saved notes for other people's notes. and it seems like im not the only one with this problem cause other people have been leaving notes like "where do my notes keep going!?"
i agree with the above person: my notes disappear and/or are switched with another person's. i use the latest Firefox and installed your program to gmail (not to igoogle), and as long as i don't close my browser, my notes are fine, but once i close the browser and open it again, my notes are gone, or i find someone else's notes, which is too bad because this makes your wonderful program unuseable...
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