A Useful Email Address Trick

Source: OtherInbox.

Every Gmail account supports "plus addressing".

Every email address contains 3 parts. Let's call them the prefix, the @ sign and the suffix.

In bozo@gmail.com, bozo is the prefix and gmail.com is the suffix.

You can add "+anyword" to the prefix.

If my email address was bozo@gmail.com, I could use bozo+amazon@gmail.com on Amazon.com and bozo+facebook@gmail.com for Facebook.

Then I could set my email software to filter them into different folders based on the +anyword part of the address.

Many websites, however, won't allow you to sign up with a "+" in your email address, including Google Alerts.