Enhancing the value of URLs and Email IDs
URLs of websites / web pages may be self-explaining if the owner takes pains to put in extra efforts. Most often they just contain some odd number, after the main URL, meaningless to the user. When you save them on your laptop (say desktop or a special file or as a bookmark etc) you may want to enhance the usefulness by adding extra info ( a phrase, say) in the URL itself.
Saket Pranam is a retirement community near Hyderabad. Its website is
https://www.saketpranamam.com/
When you save the URL on your desktop you may add a phrase to explain it further like: https://www.saketpranamam.com/#good_place_to_explore
The way to do it is to type in your comment after the last / followed by #
Observe that no spaces (blanks) are allowed in what stuff you add. Words are connected by underscore characters. As the entire URL is a hyperlink the underscore character is not visible, but it is there.
Similarly in the case of Email Ids of persons with the same name, you may want to identify exactly to who you are addressing. I have SS Murthy, NV Murthy, Jayanti Murthy in my contacts. I must make sure I do not send an email to the wrong person. Their email IDs are, let us assume, murthyss@gmail.com, murthyNV@gmail.com, and murthyj@gmail.com In order to individualise the email Ids I can add some info on the left side of@ symbol after a + character as shown below:
murthyss@gmail.com à murthyss+drdl@gmail.com
murthynv@gmail.com -> murthynv+SCF_member@gmail.com
murthyj@gmail.com -> murthyj+sister_of_kannan@gmail.com
You may save the changes in Contacts so that they become permanent.
If you type Murthy in the To or CC or Bcc field in Gmail, suggestions crop up. You may choose the correct address carefully. I always type the addresses as the last item to fill, before pressing the SEND button.
Another simple tip / trick you may want to remember: You may add a dot anywhere in the left side part of an email address before the @ symbol.
For example, when I enter my email address to subscribe for some newsletter online, I may enter my email address as vyasa.moorthy@gmail.com
In this way I can create many addresses, one for each website / platform!
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