Google Dashboard Just Showed Me How Much Stored Value I Have with Google

5 Nov 2009

Google just launched a dashboard that summarizes all of the data you have stored across various Google services.  Looking at the number of messages and documents I’ve stored with them over the years makes me realize how hard it would be to switch to something else.

Tangent: has anyone noticed how killer the Google “Preview” app is? You can view PDFs and PSDs right in the browser, copy and paste text from them—very slick.  Just more evidence that Google is my new OS.

Here are some highlights from my dashboard that I found interesting:

Account

Name: Andrew Kortina

Alerts My alerts 7 active alerts

Calendar My calendars 5 calendars – 1 public

Contacts Contacts 1359 entries

Docs Owned by me 301 documents Shared with me 157 documents Opened by me 348 documents Trashed 51 documents Starred 9 documents

Gmail Inbox 6 conversations All mail 39286 conversations Sent mail 11698 conversations Saved drafts 4 conversations Chat history 4388 conversations Spam 18 conversations Trash 541 conversations

Google Sync Google Sync 1 device configured

Profile About me 4 entries Profile URL: http://www.google.com/profiles/kortina Links: 7 sites

Reader Subscriptions 68 total Starred 92 items Shared 65 items Following 20 people Followed by 20 people

Talk Contacts 51 contacts

Tasks Task lists 1 item Completed tasks 130 items

Voice History 192 calls Voice mails 8 voice mails SMS 118 messages Placed calls 4 calls Trash 19 items

YouTube Uploaded videos 34 public Viewing history Favorites 68 favorites Playlists 4 public Subscriptions 3 public

Other products 22 additional products are not yet available in this dashboard

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