sorting out emails

Just came up with a great way to sort out my emails and must record it somewhere or I will forget how I did it.

Ok the first step is to go into my mail click on the first email in a given month eg 1st sept then go to the last email of that month and click shift and then the last email.

This selects all the emails from 1st to last day of september ... from there I go into edit tab and click on move to folder.

I created a new folder with a title like sorting out emails
and then a subfolder within this folder called september 2009.

All my september received emails are now in this folder. I also go into sent items and do the same to my september sent emails. ie. click on the first one for september, then go to the last one for september and click shift then the last email.

Again I go into edit, choose move to folder, select september 2009.

When I have all the september emails in September 2009 I sort them according to subject so that I have sent emails and received emails on the same subject one on top of the other. I do this by going into view tab and then choose sort/then click on subject and also either sort ascending or descending.

I can now easily compare emails with the same subject and decide which one to keep so I don't have double, triple or quadruples of the same information.

When I have gotten rid of duplicates etc I sort the folder back into date order again

view/sort by/date received/descending or ascending.

Anything I want to keep in its entirety gets moved directly into my information to keep folder and all that is left in my inbox and sent items box is the current months emails!

I will still of course need to transfer July/August and September emails into my email diary, but this should be easier when everything is all in one place and in date order etc.

Very pleased with myself!

Really glad I studied part of that computer course at home. Unfortunately I didn't finish it but have got plenty out of what I did do!