I get tons of email – between work and personal email I don’t know how I ever do anything but email (I’m working on implementing Tim Ferris’ recent email suggestions, but I’m not there yet). Anyways, I get a lot of email and I love hearing new methods for filtering message so that I know exactly what I have to read and what can wait until later. While reading my daily blogs today I stumbled on this little beauty – all Gmail users are given two email addresses.

In short – Google gives you two email addresses when you sign up for a Gmail account. youraccount@gmail.com and youraccount@googlemail.com both end up in your Gmail inbox. Lucky for you, this provides you with a simple way of filtering email from friends, family and coworkers differently than email from random places such as Amazon, Comcast, Cingular, etc.

All you have to do is continue using your Gmail address for the emails that you want to read immediately and start using your @googlemail.com address for all your other communication such as hotel reservations, bill notifications, online orders, news subscriptions, etc. Then create a filter in Gmail with youraccount@googlemail.com in the ‘to’ field. Have this filter apply a label to the email and archive for you to revisit later.

Give it a test and email yourself at youremail@googlemail.com.