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Official Gmail Blog: 9 reasons to archive

April 21st, 2008

The Gmail blog had a terrific post on Friday that I am now blogging about primarily for my wife.  She is very tech savvy and is an avid Gmail user, but it always surprises me that she deletes most of her e-mail in Gmail.  I think this behavior carries over from when people used to have a limit on the size of the e-mail accounts, and therefore had to delete anything that wasn’t critical or important.  It was also a much easier way to organize your e-mail inbox rather than creating folders and dragging the e-mail to them (which is what I do at work because we have limited space on our e-mail accounts).  At any rate, I think archiving is essential to getting the most out of Gmail and can be a really big help in certain situations, as described in their post.  I kinda wish Google would get rid of the delete key on the Inbox page, or at least make it a little harder to get to. 

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