My email account has a lot of emails. I'm collected somewhere in the realm of 100,000 emails in my primary email account (my Yahoo! account). I keep those emails because I anticipate that I just may want to refer to something in an email again. But finding a particular email can be impossible. For example, let's say that in an email sometime over the summer, my wife gave a hint about something she wants for Christmas. Finding that email is impossible. Even if I know that the email is one that I will want to refer to again, it is difficult to properly file an email from a person that you get a lot of emails from and be able to find it again quickly.
With Gmail's unique "conversation" view, I can quickly add a note to the email that says "christmas gift present wife" (or whatever other keywords I want to quickly add). When I want to find that email again, I can simply search for "christmas gift," and Gmail will pull up the conversation.
Of course with Gmail's limitations on storage (which radically smaller than it competition), I may not have the capacity to save the thousands and thousands of emails that I did with Yahoo! (despite Gmail's slogan, "Never delete another email again").
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