Tips and Tricks

• After sending and email to a Collection for the first time, make sure the collection address has an entry with a good descriptive name in your email address book to make future submissions easier.
• The https:// version of Resource and Collection URLs can be used to provide SSL encryption of your data between our server and the user's browser.
• When posting to a public site (forum, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) use the Redact function to obscure email addresses so spammers won't get them.
• Be considerate! Redact other people's private information from your Resource.
• When forwarding an email to 4theFile, use the "forward as attachment" option for best results.
• In Firefox, if you drag and drop one or more messages into a new "compose" window, they'll be attached to your new message.
• If you want to post to a Collection, but don't know the correct Tag (see the Collection FAQ for more information) and don't want to look it up right now, go ahead and send the message to the collection without a Tag. You can add a Tag later using the edit link in the response email, or by logging into your account. Or, if you don't own the Collection, you might want to submit to 4theFile now without specifying the Collection (it will show up in your account as long as you're using your usual email address), and assign the Resource to the Collection later when you have the correct Tags.
• The special tag "untagged" can be used to display all Resources in a Collection that don't have a tag. (e.g. http://4thefile.com/collection/lPmerJ7d/untagged)
• If your forum or blog software doesn't automatically make http://xxx.4thefile.com links clickable, a little HTML markup might work, like this: <a href="http://4thefile.com/Gk8hjY4c">4theFile link</a>
• Drag a 4theFile URL from your browser's location bar into a desktop folder to store an email link with other files related to a project or topic (works with IE and firefox in Windows, linux gnome and KDE, probably others).