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Filing email for reference?

Hi,

Recently I have found that my email is getting a bit out of control. I am getting quite good at keeping my inbox empty and generating actions. However, my filing for reference is all over the place. I started off creating a 'Reference' folder and then creating a subfolder for every bit of filing that I do, but this has quickly become difficult to manage: there are just too many folders!

So, I want to ask you all how you file your emails? I have experimented with dragging them out of Outlook as files but then I lose all of the nice sorting that I could do.

Maybe I should just create a gmail account for work and forward all of my email there?

Cheers,
David

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