You are stressing me out. |
I also do not delete many things, almost never.
I file things that I know are important, but leave the rest so I can search it. |
My inbox normally contains about half a dozen messages that require that I do something in order to respond to them. I treat it as a to-do list, pretty much.
Messages that I want to save go into my saved-messages mailbox. Every year, I start a new one and re-name the old one to saved-messages-YYYY (where YYYY is the year). Anything that I expect to need for future reference gets saved as a text file and stored in a filesystem. I try not to treat my saved-messages mailboxes as an information database, but I do occasionally need to search through them. I delete obvious spam and useless messages. I know that some people spend an inordinate amount of time organizing email into mailboxes, but I just don't think that it is a very good way to store information. |