I would have to say one of my favorite tools that Google has bundled with their Gmail service has been the Google alerts. Google alerts are really nothing more than predefined daily searches of the web. What’s nice is that with Google alerts any topic that’s of interest to me on the web will be neatly condensed into an email and given to me in my inbox every morning. So whether it’s a few authors that I like to keep up with or searches related to my job I can always find new and interesting articles, blog posts, videos and more on the web. What I like is that it takes the short description of an RSS feed and allows me the flexibility to adapt it to whatever my interests are. Below are some pictures of how I use the alerts. I’ve also set up filtering and labeling in Gmail to be able to easily organize and manage the alerts in one place.
