Email stuff to yourself

It happens many times that you may require some information to complete some form or attach to some documents for mailing or submitting somewhere. If it is at home or office, well and good, you'll retrieve it from the computer, make a print. However if you are nowhere near the place, it may mean having to take a taxi ride to get it. It may also mean to miss a deadline.

We all use email, webmail. A personal mailbox is a secure storage location that will keep your info, locked in with your password.  We can access our mailbox at any place with internet connection. Therefore all you have to do to keep the information that you are likely to need often, send it to yourself as an email attachment.

Some stuff you can send yourself:

• Photocopies of passport pages (required to obtain visas etc)
• Debit card and similar plastic cards (bank account number, card number, expiry month and year, cvv code)
• Certificates and licences (academic, professional, registration).
• Curriculum Vitae (What your professional self is made up of)

Hard disks may crash, DVDs may break, but commercial webservers shall be there all the time 24/7 with impressive availability of 99.99%.

When you have turned your email into a valuable vault, I needn't say that you need to be double-precarious: don't allow computers to remember your email password, even your personal notebook--have it remember others such as e-zine registration. You should also not use obvious giveaway names like "My Standard Chartered Debit Card.jpg", just in case: I might use "SC-plastic.jpg".

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