Yahoo mail box:
Inbox
Draft
Sent
Bulk[Empty]
Trash[Empty]
are the defaults. I set it to save all sent mail because I have a terrible memory and also tend to delete things accidentally after sending replies.
The new folders I set up are arranged by theme, usually reflecting some project or subject I collect information on:
Adoptions (for links to/emails about both my own adoption and interracial adoption issues, articles, research, that sort of stuff).
Financials (Bills from Amazon, Paypal accounting, credit card statements, receipts for anything that I buy online)
Flying Robot (maillist run by Saveloy -- easier to read all in bulk)
Home Repair Stuff (links & articles about fixing things, renovating things -- not used much lately)
Ruehl (where I sent mail from Dr. Ruehl, who I used to ghostwrite a column for. I keep meaning to delete the folder, but can't bring myself to -- there are a few dozen unpublished column/ weird science Q&As in there)
adams animatics (scripts and stuff regarding an animation project I did soundtracks for. by Adam Ford, author, poet, geek.)
addresses and info (directions to people's houses, mostly)
foodstuffs (recipes, I think. I haven't used it in ages.)
forteana (UFO & paranormal phenomena I can't quite bear to delete)
mix tapes (emails for organizing mix tape swaps).
poetry and art (mainly a way to save emails with graphic attachments from artist friends, but also bizarre writings, largely from my friend Van, who I've written about in the Creation before)
rock and roll projects (anything having to do with recording, selling CDs, people or websites that were helpful, lyrics written at work and sent to myself)
wedding pix (a place where I stuck all the pictures of my wedding that people emailed to me.)
These folders may drift, new ones may open, old ones may vanish. |
