I don't know, maybe if you're old-fashioned you won't like the trash metaphor, but I love it. And every so often I just do
trash-empty 30
to clean out anything older than a month.
I like the trash metaphor. I haven't formalized it yet, but often I will simply "mv" things to ~/old or ~/tmp and let it rot there for a few months. Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.
I quite like the way Gmail handles this issue. Stuff just goes stale and drops of the first page of your inbox. But it's still there --- and I now feel that it's barbaric to delete emails.
I don't know, maybe if you're old-fashioned you won't like the trash metaphor, but I love it. And every so often I just do trash-empty 30 to clean out anything older than a month.