When I have a message I want to reply to later, typically I "star" the message and leave it in the Inbox (don't Archive it yet).
Once I've replied to it, I remove the star and archive that conversation. Everyone has their own work flow that appeals to them. Gmail gives us lots of tools to make this work. Over time we have seen many people who didn't understand how the Inbox (and Archive) worked. Some of them kept ALL their messages in their Inbox because they were afraid that Archiving them would make them inaccessible (it doesn't!), and then they complained that their Inbox was cluttered. Some complained that messages never went away from their Inbox even after they read them. Me, I find the Inbox most useful for keeping anything that I know I want to get back to, in the next few days. Everything else gets removed from the Inbox, but NOT deleted because I know there is a chance -- even a slim one -- that I might want to find it again, perhaps 6 months from now. If it's truly unnecessary (a complete duplicate of another message), then I might delete it. Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
