[Users] Email organization approaches

[Ben Hancock]

On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 18:58:18 -0500
Charles Lane <lane at dchooz.org> wrote:

> Filtering to put incoming mail into "subfolders" of INBOX (things
> like "MailList/Claws" "Syslogs/Problem" ...only ~10 of these. [...]
> Next, a set of subject-folders for the "current year"; things
> like "AAA_Current/Personal/Finance" "AAA_Current/Safety/RadSafety"
> to make it easy to find recent stuff, without cluttering INBOX
> subfolders. The "AAA_Current" is to keep them all at the top of
> the folder list, where they are easy to find. 
> 
> [...]
> 
> Sometime in January, I have to spend an hour moving the accumulated
> email in AAA_Current folders to archival locations...every now and
> then subjects that are old and idle get moved to an "Archive" main
> category. 

Thanks Charles. I like this idea. I feel like it's a good way to force
a regular reassessment of whether all the folders under "Current" are
needed anymore, and if not, to just resign them to the archive. 

Cheers,
Ben