How you organize and name your files will have a big impact on your ability to find those files later and to understand what they contain. You should be consistent and descriptive in naming and organizing files so that it is obvious where to find specific data and what the files contain.

File names for your emails should allow you to identify enough information from the name of the file – without need to open the file.

When you save email conversations to Google Drive, you can select from the following options for the format of email message filenames:

  1. date [from] subject
  2. [from] date subject
  3. date subject
  4. [to] [from] date subject

date [from] subject

For example, if you select three email conversations:

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…each conversation is saved using a date [from] subject format:
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[from] date subject

For example, if you select three email conversations:

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…each conversation is saved using a [from] date subject format:
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date subject

For example, if you select three email conversations:

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…each conversation is saved using a date subject format:
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[to] [from] date subject

For example, if you select three email conversations:

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…each conversation is saved using a [to] [from] date subject format:
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