You can organise your e-mail by putting them in folders, printing them and deleting them.

Once you've got a certain amount of mail, you can begin to feel overwhelmed by it, unless you take steps to manage or file it, just as you would with paperwork.

So, for example, you could go to your inbox and find hundreds of mails and not be able to find a mail you need to check.

Folders

You can easily manage your e-mail just like you do your bills and paperwork by organising them in folders.

For example, you have probably got a folder at home with a section for bills, credit card statements etc.

It's the same with e-mail. It's a good idea to set up folders in your e-mail program that clearly indicate which mails belong where.

You can then read, search and generally edit these folders in the same way that you would do with your paper documents.

What to do

You need to create folders organised by topic or if you get a lot of mail from key people you can set up folders for mail from particular senders.

So, for example, you could put all the e-mails from your mum in one folder and all the e-mails about the surprise party for your kids in another.

Every so often it's still a good idea to clear out your old mails and do a mass delete of old irrelevant ones.