In a Next Avenue article, writer Carol Orsborn, who recently signed up for Medicare, said that by the time she made her final decisions about which coverage to take, she had received enough direct mail solicitations to fill six hanging folders with hundreds of brochures.

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The idea of creating folders in an e-mail reader is not advanced calculus.

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On the left hand side of the page, there will be a column listing all the folders (inbox, sent mail, etc.) and in the middle of the page will be the main text box.

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These documents were neatly organized in folders, but my e-mail (including large volumes of spam) was just sitting, uncategorized, in my in-box.

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For example, if your business involves putting together packets of information for clients, maybe you have one station specifically for printing, and another that has all the hole punches, staplers, folders, and other assembly materials, and still a third station for preparing outgoing mail.

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