> On the other hand, part of the point of Gmail is that it makes your emails easily searchable, so you can quickly dig up info from old mail rather than have to

> On the other hand, part of the point of Gmail is that it makes your emails easily searchable, so you can quickly dig up info from old mail rather than have to make a note of said info in some sepearate program/notebook/whatever. It's slightly off-topic, but I've found since I switched to notmuch that offline search is much faster than online search. I can dig through my trove of gigabytes of email in fractions of a second: queries feel as though they're instantaneous. This is a case where free software has caught up to & exceeded Google. It's pretty wonderful!