As the use of email has increased, email organization has become a more important task. Uses for email vary greatly, from keeping in touch with old friends and dating to communicating medical and business information. Keeping all these different emails in your "Inbox" can lead to a confusing clutter. Creating email folders helps to keep your emails, and indirectly your life, more organized.
Log into your email account.
Locate and select the option for creating a new email folder. The exact wording of the option can vary by email server. For instance, Yahoo! and AOL have an "Add" option located next to the server's "Folders" tab, while Google's option reads "Create a new label." The new email folder option can typically be found on the left side of the screen.
Type in the name you wish to give the new email folder and press "Enter" on your keyboard. To file email messages from your inbox into your new email folder, select the appropriate inbox messages and move the emails to the folder using the server's "move to" option, typically located above the messages.
Repeat steps two and three as needed to create the necessary email folders for effective email
Tips
Like the new folder creation option, the "move to" option discussed in step three varies in wording by server. For example, Google's move to option reads as "Move to" while AOL's move to option can be located under the "Action" tab.
Log into your email account.
Locate and select the option for creating a new email folder. The exact wording of the option can vary by email server. For instance, Yahoo! and AOL have an "Add" option located next to the server's "Folders" tab, while Google's option reads "Create a new label." The new email folder option can typically be found on the left side of the screen.
Type in the name you wish to give the new email folder and press "Enter" on your keyboard. To file email messages from your inbox into your new email folder, select the appropriate inbox messages and move the emails to the folder using the server's "move to" option, typically located above the messages.
Repeat steps two and three as needed to create the necessary email folders for effective email
Tips
Like the new folder creation option, the "move to" option discussed in step three varies in wording by server. For example, Google's move to option reads as "Move to" while AOL's move to option can be located under the "Action" tab.