Comments on: Open Thread: Email – Are You a Filer or a Finder?

By: Barbara Saunders

Barbara Saunders — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:37:46 +0000

Finder! No question. A lot of my communications and work/client relationships don’t fall into discrete categories.

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By: thisismyurl

thisismyurl — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:23:15 +0000

Helllo, my name is Christopher and I’m a filer. I have every email since 1996 stored on my MacBook.

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By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:37:48 +0000

Great post. I am filer/storer and finder. Because of Gmail’s storage capacity I keep all attachments in Gmail rather than downloading. If I want to find I can either go to folder or search. I do both but a big pile of unsorted/unread stuff is not for me. What if you filed something that you knew was important but forgot who it was from etc. A filer will likely find it quicker and a finder possibly not at all.

By: Andrew Flusche

Andrew Flusche — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:47:54 +0000

Filers are doomed to failure. There’s just too much email to keep track of the folders and moving everything around. I don’t see why people still try to do this.

Search is the new organization.

By: Sidharth

Sidharth — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:32:46 +0000

Gmail makes it damn easy for me. I have this labels and the filters which means that I do not have to label each mail individually. This takes care of the filing. Finding is the real reason that Gmail rocks .

By: DanGTD

DanGTD — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:46:34 +0000

I have the inbox empty, and move all to Archive. Throw it all in a huge pile and just search it later.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:43:45 +0000

You left off “Email is communication tool, not a storage system,” so I guess I don’t fit into your neat little world.

By: Martijn Engler

Martijn Engler — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:20:13 +0000

Mixed. ;)
I do label stuff , but just with the project name it belongs too. Then, if I’m looking for something I’ll combine search with label.

Something like: “todo list label:projectname” for example. Or if I know the e-mail I’m looking for was one of the last ones sent to me about that particular project, I might dive right in the label.

I’m a GMail (GAFYD) user by the way.