In Outlook: I have a rule to filter all mail I expect to be important (e.g. from my leaders; addressed directly to me, certain keywords in the subject) to an "Attention" folder which I use as my default. Anything else, known, that doesn't usually need attention (automated reports, marketing etc.) is auto-filed.

This allows me to concentrate on "Attention" (named to sort to the top) and have Inbox for things I should check on sometime.

When searching is necessary I use an external tool X1 which auto-indexes mail and files. I don't know how it stacks up against competitors ( I hear good things about Xobni ) but it works fine. Often though it's simplest to go directly to the folder but with auto-archiving enabled that gets annoying for anything but recent mails.

Joonas & Paul are both Corewar veterans being respectively co-authors of Son of Vain (Joonas P & Ian Oversby) top of the all-time hall-of-fame and nPaper II (Paul V-K & John Metcalf) dominant paper of its time.

Good practice for writing obscure, but useful, code.

I'd give clickable links but fear for these sites under load.

www.corewar.info/
www.corewar.co.uk/94nophof.txt