I almost have up to 10 gmail accounts for multiple purposes and at times it gets really hard to manage all those email accounts and I miss on some important emails.
Recently I come to my knowledge that using “.” in an account in gmail doesn’t make any sense as google will work even without using the “.” for example:
I have a email address containing prateek.regmi@gmail.com and I have been using it ever since I opened up the account. I don’t know why I put “.” in between, may be I was fearing I wouldn’t get the account under my exact name and luckily I got this account under my name and I didn’t bothered having a dot in between.
Now I have come to know that even if I use “prateekregmi@gmail.com” then the email is forwarded to my email address “prateek.regmi@gmail.com”. So all the years of typing one extra dot was meaningless. But even though I know this I tend to use my habitual email address…. habits… duh…
Ok lets come back to our main topic. After identifying this cool feature and experiencing difficulties managing multiple gmail accounts, I went on a quest to find out what other features that gmail offers. And Walla…. I found that you don’t need multiple gmail accounts at all, One account can do various tasks acting as completely new email address. If you want to open multiple account on any websites signup we can just use one gmail account achieve this.
For example:
If you want to open multiple accounts in Amazon Webservices to enjoy the free tier benefits and want to play around with the AWS we will require unique email addresses. Hey wait ….. that is what this article is for.
Just use “+” sign to your email address and get the benefits.
I can just do
“prateekregmi+accounts@gmail.com”
“prateekregmi+IT@gmail.com”
“prateekregmi+Admin@gmail.com”
“prateekregmi+support@gmail.com”
You can use as many as you like and get the email straight to your inbox. Now this will allow you to filter messages automatically based on the “+name” and completely manage your inbox in no time.
Now you can go to AWS account signup page and signup for as many accounts as you like.
Wow we learnt today how to open multiple accounts in AWS using one gmail account.
Lets keep learning….
If you have similar tools and tips I would like to learn from you too.. please let me know in the comments.