Q5

5. How have you organised the folder structure of your email and why?


With every folder created, it allows you more choices to store emails appropriate to each folder. Using the one folder system, you can either action an item or not.

After creating the folder click into the preferences page and find the 'sent items' selection. It is located on the Mailbox Management tab. Simply select the folder you just created and click "Save" or "Apply". Log out and then Log back in.

Using folders help me to:

1-Avoid thinking about where to locate emails should I not have time to read them when received.

2-Convenience of storage and retrieval of emails.

3-Condense numerous emails into more simpler and viewable folders.

4-Quicker to locate old emails sent.

At what point, however, can a folder become an impediment to smart and timely action? Put more generically: how do we not allow the buckets and cubbyholes in our lives to become affordances for procrastination and disorganization?

One way is to understand that the life of information does not end when it goes into whatever you consider “the right place.” Quite the opposite, getting organized just means you’ve glued handles onto the various stuff in your life; you will still need to pick it up and carry it around from time to time.