I've gotten on this topic again, and have found a couple of interesting
articles, technologies, etc.
Rael gets rid of organization and tries keeping all his mail in one
spot:
http://www.raelity.org/computers/internet/email/archive.html
Fishing and Intertwingling:
http://ifindkarma.typepad.com/relax/2004/03/fisher_as_a_pro.html
and, somewhat related...
Document Indexing Systems (I'm sure you guys have already seen this...
Beagle vs Spotlight, etc):
http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/document-indexing
J.