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Email Archive as Life Archive?
Jamie Phelps | Jul 25 2007
After watching Merlin's Tech Talk, I was struck by the shear volume of stuff in my Archive folder. I can't possibly need all of that, right? Here's a brief rundown of the kinds of things I have in there:
Some of this stuff is CYA type stuff that I don't feel like I should get rid of. Some of it is reference stuff to be sure, so I guess that could be moved into Journler or Yojimbo. Do any of you guys feel compelled like I do to keep an archive of your digital life? Anyone moving this stuff off to a junk drawer app like Journler or Yojimbo? Anyone just deleting with impunity consequences be damned? 4 Comments
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 If you have the space...Submitted by Stew on July 26, 2007 - 6:23am.
If you have the space and can still find what you need quickly, why not just leave the archive as is? I haven't deleted much from gmail in two years, and still have plenty of space. If an email is project-related, I'll paste it into Evernote before archiving. The email archive has saved my butt a few times. For example, there was an error on my bank statement. I proved the bank incorrect by offering my daily balance summary email as proof of when the error occurred. I don't usually search directly from gmail often, but I'm glad I have that option when needed. » POSTED IN:
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