[Dave Caolo](http://52tiger.net/your-email-client-is-not-a-filing-cabinet): >Today I visited someone with over 1,800 messages in her email inbox. They weren’t unread. The messages were being stored there. It took her 12 minutes to find the message she wanted to show me. >Twelve minutes. Every non-geek I know uses their email inbox like this, heck, even some lazy geeks too. I have been trying Merlin Mann's [Inbox Zero](http://inboxzero.com/video/) for a few years and it does wonders, not only to help you quickly find the emails that matter, but to your mental sanity as well.