Apart from searching, the best way to find your emails again is to create folders and labels in Gmail. Obsessive organizers, unite!

Although Gmail doesn't allow you to create folders per se, its label function serves the same purpose. Here's how to set up folders/labels in Gmail.

It's time to clean up your inbox. Gmail has the option to create folders or "labels" so your emails go to the right place within your account.

Instead, we'll set up a Gmail filter that will automatically label all of our emails with attachments. To do so, click the Create a Filter link in Gmail and tick the Has attachment checkbox.

Get rid of the boring paperclip icon for an e-mail attachment in Gmail by using this handy Chrome extension.

If you want to download Gmail emails for future references, then you can export & save them as a MBOX file. This article explains how.