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Organizing your Email into Folders is a Waste of Time
- ColinWright 15y agoNot having my emails in folders would make it impossible to skim an email "conversation" prior to picking up after 3 months. It would be impossible to archive a project and send it to people. Foldering has its uses. Search has its uses. I do both. What is this current fad for telling me how I must do things. I'm an individual, and I have strengths and weaknesses. My strengths don't match yours - don't make me work the way you think I ought. And get off my lawn!
- leviathant 15y agoI've got filters set up to organize in Outlook by Category, and manually flag items based on priority. I've found that cross-referencing For Follow Up flags by Category is the best way to keep emails from falling through the cracks. For everything else, there's Xobni. I only use folders for stuff like serve emails. For my personal mail, I'm generally happy with my options in Gmail.