I mentioned this in the office the other day and was surprised that no one else knew, so they told me to post it in my Scrapbook!
If you're signing up for mailing lists/etc with your Gmail account, try adding a tag your email address, like this:
[email protected] (instead of [email protected])
This will work like your normal email address, but if you also create a label in your email account called "lists", all mail with this tag will automatically be added to it. You can also create a filter for all email with "+lists" in the address, so that it doesn't display in your inbox.
There are some other uses for this. For example, if you're testing a site, you can just add different tags to your address and you have an endless supply of different addresses to test it with.
Also, if you teach two completely different things, and want to have two different teaching profiles on School of Everything, you could use the same email address with different tags to create multiple accounts.
Hope that isn't too confusing - I've found this trick useful, so it seemed worth passing on.
