To file or not to file…
I always tell my friends and colleagues who keep having trouble finding this email or that email in their various folders: Don’t file email messages away in special folders, just keep them in the inbox, and when you want to find something then search for it using a search tool. So simple.
The problem is that we file stuff away in what appears to be the logical place at the time (the name of the sender, the topic of discussion, the year, etc), but inevitably when we look for that email we don’t remember exactly what it was filed under. Let modern search tools do the work!