| First, search makes the logs far more useful. Second, time helps ("we were talking about it around this time of year"). Third, you don't necessarily know how valuable the conversation is when you first have it. And fourth, pictures and video and similar. > It feels as if the point that I'm trying to make is that mindful archiving is a better solution than to just 'keep all the things' I used to carefully archive every email in an appropriate folder. Now I only have one folder, "Archive", which contains all mail, and I use search to find what I'm looking for. (Search is all I used back when I had folders, too.) That requires far, far less work at the time of receiving a message. Consider the time taken to carefully file something away, the difficulty of keeping such things organized manually, the ease of just automatically storing everything organized by time and people, and the likelihood of you successfully predicting in advance what you'll want later. |