You go Art! Totally agree with Art on DDT. I'd also like to add that BCE and CE offend me. We made it for 2k years with BC/AD, and no one complained. Spare me the political correctness please.

Goodness! If I didn't know better I'd say it was the Weasley home. I wonder if this is what drove Rowling's inspiration for it. Hmmmm.

The best email that will quickly accomplish the tasks listed in all of your tips is Gmail, except for #6 where the need for that one will no longer exist. The anti-spam do-dad is amazing.

The subfolder obstacle is eliminated since you can't create them anyway. You can label emails such as: todo, torespond, toresearch and so forth.

Yep, I love my Gmail and just cannot live without it.