If you have multiple mobile devices, like me (Macbook, Palm Pre, iPad), chances are you have your email setup using the IMAP (or Internet Message Access) protocol for message retrieval. This keeps your inbox in sync across all devices, and allows actions such as deleting or moving a message to take effect on all devices. If you don’t have IMAP or an Exchange server setup, you probably experience a lot of frustration trying to manually keep all of your inboxes in sync.

If you don’t have IMAP configured, I suggest you contact your email service provider for instructions. Popular services like Gmail have online tutorials.

Here’s the tip:

The IMAP drafts folder (which should be available through nearly every email service) provides an extremely convenient way to store and share notes or text across your devices. When you make a new “draft” on one device, it automatically syncs with your other devices. If you’ve got some text from your computer that you’d like to read on your phone, just store the text in a draft.

You could just email stuff to yourself, but that takes another step and along the way you lose the ability to make changes to your note.

Keep in mind: Whenever you are storing your emails and data on a server or web-based service, you should always be aware of storage constraints. But most modern web-mail services include many gigabytes beyond what you actually need. In the near future, online storage issues will be (and arguably already are) a thing of the past.