Comments on: How many email folders do you need?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:04:24 +0000

I’ve found labels and archive in Gmail work almost exactly the same as folders. Though with labels I seem to use a crazy # more than I ever did with folders in Outlook.

By: Vuki

Vuki — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:34:04 +0000

I'm open to recommendations for more Outlook plug-ins. Which are the best?

I have a lot of folders -- about 15, and then some sub-folders too. I also have setup quite a few rules with certain e-mails going automatically to certain folder.

I still find myself going over the company's 450MB limit quite often. Finding it hard to keep it under that. I guess I just have to be a bit more pro-active with auto-archiving :-).

By: idodialog

idodialog — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:59:54 +0000

I'm self employed now, but even when I was working in an NGO I would run about 10 folders in my main email app.
I still do. But I find that as I've got better and better with Gmail (never did get around to studying Lifehacker's Gmail tips) mainly labelling and filtering I just don't need all those folders.
How often do I really need to look at emails more than a week old? I really don't - and if I do they are neatly in the conversation anyway or labelled.
I think the strength of this is that I've grown into Gmail - nice and unforced.

By: Doogie

Doogie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:18:56 +0000

I used to use a lot of folders, but after moving to Outlook 2007 at work – improved search – and after reading numerous posts from Lifehacker and 43 Folders on the subject, I moved to using just my Inbox and an Archive folder. With a commercial plug-in for Outlook called Taglocity, I have almost the same functionality in Outlook as I get in Gmail (which I use for personal email), tagging messages with categories rather than filing them into folders.