“ I stopped foldering email when I moved from outlook/exchange to gmail last year. I’ve also stopped foldering paperwork for the most part. I just keep an electronic copy and tag and or label it and make it accessible easily with search. This seems like a small change, but in actuality it is a huge productivity enhancer. You can tag/label and save so much faster than you can folder things. And folders don’t scale. Tags and labels do.
I have never been able to get a handle on the Gmail tagging system vs. foldering. When Gmail introduced the ability to move items to a folder it was a lifesaver. I need to see all the messages I need to respond to and get rid of ones I don’t need (i.e., folder them). Without doing this, my Gmail inbox gets pages and pages long and I never get around to the old ones, tag or no tag. I’m sure there is a way to use it better so maybe I just don’t understand the concept.
2 years ago