By now you've heard a lot about understanding the basic email types, or segments, and you've learned more about why it's important to create labels by type of material, instead of specifics that may become obsolete. Now it's time to roll up our sleeves and actually set up your virtual filing cabinet. This only takes a little bit of up front leg work on your part, and then the rest is up to the Gmail powers that be.

Today we're going to set up your virtual filing cabinet with labels and filters. We'll be learning about labels, how to use them to your advantage, and then what to do with them. Filters will be your magic wand in this next trick!

Setting up virtual email folders is not really an option anymore these days. It's almost exactly the same way as setting up a filing cabinet, but with a few recommended cautions. Here are some easy ways to set up email folders that we'll use in our next lesson to automate your inbox organization.