This post is part of the series Using Gmail. Check out all the posts from this series here.
I used to be an avid filer of email messages. I had a well-developed system of folders in Outlook that every message that I wanted to keep would go into. It worked, to an extent, but one of the limitations of the system was that I had to remember which folder a particular message was in if I was going to find it.
Today, I don’t file any of my messages into folders. Once I’ve read & acted on my messages I simply archive them. What this basically does is simply removes the message from my inbox and puts it into a big pot with other messages. This might sound like chaos, but the system works extremely well because of the power of Google’s search abilities in Gmail.
