I'm still more comfortable with e-mail than almost any other form of communication. I suppose I'm just a text kinda gal (although I'm a terribly slow texter on my phone; I no longer regularly IM my friends as I did in high school and at the beginning of college; and I don't really post messages to forums, discussion boards, or MySpace pages). I prefer shooting an e-mail off to folks rather than trying to catch them on the phone; leaving an e-mail is almost like leaving a phone message...except I can delete, edit, rephrase, and reorganize my thoughts in a WYSWYG kinda way.All that said, I am extremely rigorous about deleting e-mails (sometimes deleting things that I probably should've kept....and then needing to have someone resend me the e-mail that they had smartly tucked away for later). With both of my personal e-mail accounts (hotmail and google), as well as with my work e-mail, I have a series of (perhaps not clearly) labeled subjects that seem to work okay for my purposes (such as health insurance, identity theft, online shopping, family, recipes, articles, outreach, programming, etc.).
If I need to hold on to an e-mail for future reference (perhaps I'm working on something in particular and I need to make sure I have a whole group of e-mails to facilitate an ongoing project), then I'll keep it aside in a folder. If the e-mail seems just like an FYI or a "how're you doin'?" note, then I usually delete it if it holds no sentimental value (like a love note from a J.A.M. would certainly be kept). I do a better job of maintaining order in my work e-mail than within my personal e-mail accounts, but it has worked for me so far :)
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