How Do You Use Your BlackBerry Series: Message Folders - Combined or Separate?

There is an easy way to have all your e-mails in one mailbox, but look at individual accounts. I do not want to have 5 different mailboxes, so I hide all of them. What I do is create search rules, so for example if I want to see what came on my Gmail account I just press alt-G and only Gmail e-mails (in and out) are shown, or alt-L for my corporate ones (alt-S for SMS and alt-U for unread are defaults).

Here is how to do it:
1) Go into the messages folder
2) Press the BlackBerry key to see the options and select "Search"
3) Leave all options unchanged, except for the Service one, and select from the list there the email address you want to assign to the search (for example, the "...@gmail.com" one)
4) Press the BlackBerry key again and select "Save"
5) Type the Title you would like to appear at the top of the screen, for example "Gmail"
6) Select a shortcut key, for example "g"
7) Press the BlackBerry key again and select "Save"

Now you are done. When you are inside your messages folder by pressing alt-G it will only show you your Gmail emails. Do this for all accounts and you won't need to separate the different folders and go back to the home screen and select a different folder every time you want to see your other accounts, just by pressing alt and the corresponding letter you immediately see a particular account.

If you want to modify, erase or just see the assigned letters, press the BB key, go to "Search" and inside there press again the BB key and select "Recall". This will show you all the filters, including the ones that came by default.

Enjoy!

It just works better for me that way, especially when I get only 10 emails but 2-500 texts a day, sorting can b a pain.

I am really still new to the BlackBerry and I haven't learned yet how to put all my message in one folder . Can someone please tell me how

I keep them separated to distinguish work vs personal. Only problem is I don't like the generic mail icons and the fact we cannot change them in os5

I leave them all combined: texts, email, facebook and appworld all in one folder

I like em all in one ... Hide the individual accounts. I also like to set color borders so I can visually separate work emails from personal.

For sure, what's the point to check individual folder.

so i don't have to go nuts jumping back and forth between folders.

i use the messages folder for my 3 email accounts. But i keep my bbm, and sms separate. I may change it one day.

I keep everything together so there's less clutter but I am going to be seperating my emails.

as of right now my SMS messages and MMS are in a seperate folder from my Email and BBM folder.. and i hate it.. i want the two folders combined.. can anyone help me combine them?????????? please and thank you!

I use 2 folders, one for all my email accounts, and one for text and mms. Keeps things clean...IMO

I have 4 E-Mail accounts I use with my 9700. Two are strictly business accounts and the other two are personal. I like to be able to look and see which account is coming in. If it's business I usually grab it right away. Personal I let it go until I have free time. I also had Drivesafely until my paid Vlingo account added it's new safereader. I deleted drivesafely,kept safereader and gained a little memory. I think it would be very confusing if all my messages were all in one folder.

Do be very accurate about this I divided all of my messages separately, then use it for about a week. After a week I put them back in one place because of all the extra clicking it took to get what having them in one place accomplishes. I do agree I scroll more and have to archive just about all of my saved messages but in the end this work outs for me.

I keep all messages combined - I can use quicklaunch to get to the messages screen in two clicks no matter what I'm doing. If they were all separate, I would have to jump back to the home screen to see which message type it is, then click on that specific message icon. Also, appswitcher makes it much easier when they are combined. How would you know if it's sms, mms, email, bbm in app switcher? You can't!

I keep all 4 of my e-mail accounts in Messages and hide all the individual e-mail account folders. SMS/MMS are separate, BBM is separate.

I keep emails all in one folder as well as facebook, beejive, and anything else that gets puched through. I keep SMS and MMS in their own folder, just because the theme I am using has a link for messages and sms seperate. Otherwise they would be together.

I keep mine seperated. I do this so that I don't delete an email that I really need and also when I am looking at my phone if I see that I have an email from my job I can deal with that one right then and I don't have to scroll through all the email messages to get any work messages.

I keep mine seperated. I do this so that I don't delete an email that I really need and also when I am looking at my phone if I see that I have an email from my job I can deal with that one right then and I don't have to scroll through all the email messages to get any work messages.

I keep all my email in the message folder (like 6 email accounts) and hide the individual folders, and I keep SMS messages in its own folder. That works best for me.....

I don't want to go through different folders for different account, this is easier.

i have sms and email seperate because i delete almost all my sms after reading and idont want to delete important emails by accident. works for me.

Although I would probably separate if I had my work email in there.

Mine are currently all combined.
Can anyone advise how I set up the 'Default' send. I have my Storm 2 running .517

The one I use is not present: I use Message app for all my email accounts but keep SMS separate

I've installed five email addresses on my Tour 9630 (AOL, Live, Google, Yahoo and BlackBerry) each one has its own unique purpose. I use the one main email folder for a quick view of my all that has hit my inbox. Then I use each individually to quickly find any specific email. My SMS folder is used basicly for receiving sport scores and news updates from sites such as ESPN and Yahoo Sports.

I keep my emails together and my txts seperately

Device, a Pearl, I would separate the inboxes but soon grew tired of opening each one to read different messages. Now, it just seems soooo much easier to have everything in one place.

i keep my work email, sms, and gmail seperate. mostly becuase i dont like to dig into my work email on the weekends but still want to read my sms. gmail i use thier app

I use emails, twitter and SMS combined in the messaging app. Much simpler and easier.

P.S. Where can I get the wallpaper shown in the post above?

I keep em seperate

Keep em separate. Not sure why but that's the way it just is.

i kept all my Email in 1 folder whereas SMSs are kept in a seperate folder

All of my emails go to my Gmail app, and everything else into my messages app.

I have to keep mine apart. SMS apart from e-mail, and each e-mail account apart because each e-mail is for something different. I keep my messages icon hidden as well

i want that wallpaper can someone point me to it for the tour

I set it for all sms/email to go to one msgs folder. That way one icon on screen to keep track of 3 email accounts and txt.

why search around when it's all in 1 spot....

I keep my Emails separate from my SMS/MMS. I have 10 emails on my phones, so I need to separate business and pleasure
. I would love to find a theme that,can have different icons for each emails. Maybe I should just create one my self!

I keep my SMS/MMS and emails separate. And each of my email accounts is a separate icon on my home screen. (I also like a "clean, wallpaper friendly" home screen, which made finding a good one difficult...) That way I can tell which account/folder the message came to and how quickly I need to look at it. I actually only would go into my Messages folder to get rid of my missed calls - really annoyed me that they showed up in my messages folder and as a "New Message" on the icon. But this post and the comments made me take a further look and I just discovered "Call Logging"! I just selected "None" so now hopefully none of my calls will show up in there and I will never go into my Messages folder! Thanks CrackBerry!

Everything goes into Messages. E-Mail, SMS, MMS, BBM, missed calls, Facebook updates, App World updates. Everything is in there.

Then I also have the icons for "Desktop" (my BES account, why do they call it that anyway and how can I change it?), "GMail," "SMS/MMS" and "Blackberry Messenger," in case I just want to view one thing. But most of the time that's not what I'm doing. Most of the time I'm looking at Messages.

I tried to keep them separate but the messages folder kept re-organizing itself so I could only see emails. I ended up giving up and allowing it to be all in one folder. Now I'm used to it.

I love having them combined. makes my life so much easier. I can usually tell which email address the message was sent to by the sender or the context. if I'm not sure, I scroll up. I try to address my emails right away so it's not like they pile up too much.

I also combine SMS messages. No sense in having extra crap on the screen I don't need. And, again, why not just have one place to go to to take care of everything. If I have a lot to take care of at once, I can swipe to the next message when they're all combined. If I had to get out and then go to another mail folder, that would be a pain.

Also, I have a hidden folder called "seldom used" that I keep all the individual email folders. They keep vzw's pushed browser links company.

but then i came over here from Facebook and looked in the forum and saw this page and "got it." and A'd it: all in one place. i can't be bothered looking in twenty different folders...

combined

Combined with all the icons hidden.

Well I recently just had everything go to my message app because I never really used iit but I do now and I love it what I'm tryna do is find a way to make my SMS go into that folder also....help please

I use the message folder to store both email and texts but i relly dont like it sometimes i just hide the message folder in my applicationd area

I alway kept them strictly seperate, but now I got my gmail plug-in up and running and having the option in OS5 to keep in both ways at the same time i´m leaning more towards the combined approach.. I just never understood it before....

Add a fourth option.

"Keep emails and SMS seperate"

That's what I do. I have four email accounts linked to the Messages folder, and my MMS/SMS folder.

SEPARATE IS THE ONLY WAY TO GO!!! I have 4 Email accounts... one yahoo, one hotmail, one gmail & one enterprise... I need all of them separate so i can know whats coming where, and keep them organized & separate from my text messages...

but with a different alert for each account, so know when I need to check right away or most likely junk. I put all the email folders in one folder, and hide it.

like the song says' u gotta keep em seperated

like the song says' u gotta keep em seperated

keep my email, VVM and facebooks updates in my messages folder, while i have sms/mms seperate.

If the OS would differentiate between notifications when you have your sms/email together, i would group them all in the messages folder (when i include sms/mms in my messages folder, the notification for a new text received is grouped in with the notification of the unread emails. EX: i have 4 unread texts, and 6 unread emails. the notification shows 10 unread messages. I'd rather it be split up to id how many sms/mms and how many messages)

i keep emails and sms separate. it's easier for me to compose a new text or email by hitting 'c' when they are separated.

My berry has two email accounts on it, one work one personal. I keep all my emails combined into the messages folder along with FB notifications and etx. and leave SMS/MMS out separate.

I have work and 2 personal emails. I like to view things separately. I also like my SMS/MMS in their own folder. I hide my messages folder because it annoys me to see it there and I don't use it.

I have all 3 of email accounts going into my email folder, and SMS/MMS going into its own folder.

Ever since I got my Blackberry I've had my email & sms/mms seperate BUT since I've upgraded to OS 5.0 I've liked the threaded SMS so this post has encouraged me to try them combined... seems alright so far... easier than jumping between SMS/MMS and my email.

I keep my email and SMS separate, but all my emails in one box.

I keep mine separate to help me prioritize - business versus personal versus SMS versus BBM.

All of my emails go in the "messages" folder.
SMS/MMS goes into its own separate folder right next to it.

I like to keep my apps separate, creating a mail folder in which I keep my various inboxes; a social networking folder for my IMs and twitter and FB; and a personal tasks for my personal/business management tools from address book to password keeper.

Most people who's BBs or other smartphones I see have everything cluttered on the homescreen, I'm one of the few who uses folders extensively....the biggest drawback being that when I switch themes (I've only done so three times in a year) I have to recreate folders then move everything back into their proper home?

Am I neurotic for going through this exercise, or are there others like me??

I keep all of my emails combined in the messages app, along with Facebook notifications. SMS and MMS is separated from those emails.

I have 4 BIS email, 4 IM including our corporate OCS - plus our BES Exchange mail (SMS & MMS too though we discourage them since they are not included in our data plans) - no way I'm gonna keep checking them individually normally. Very handy to have them all combined - for me.
YMMV

i would love to use combined for everything but what i hate is when my bbm and text messages show up in there to i dont want them on there. if someone knows how to fix this issue for me that would be awesome.

I use the Messages Folder for Email and Instant Messages and the SMS folder for SMS and MMS obviously. Ithen create an Email folder and throw all the individual email folders in there along with my Translator app, saved messages and compose message.

I like to use my messages app, but I keep my email folder and sms folder present. I usually check either my email folder or sms folder but if I have both a unread email and sms I would use messages.

I use both. Having 5 email accounts, i like to have it seperate when i am looking for certain emails but then again i use the main message folder as well.

it's much easier to keep track of all my messages that way.
But the better question is where cani get that crackberry theme i always see on your phone?

I use my message folder for all email and visual voicemail, but I keep my sms seperate!

I have all my email combined to my messages folder, but I do not combine my text in there. I leave my text in a seperate folder, makes it easier for me.

Gotta stay organized, and that way I never send the wrong email or message to the wrong person.

I keep everything going into one folder, but when I see a lot of email with the same subject. I'll go into the Gmail plug-in so it'll show me the threaded messages therefore making it easier to read the entire thread of messages without a bbm or text message messing up the flow of the thread.

I use 1 folder for sms/mms, one for emails, and every IM has its own place. I hate a combined folder. I use Berrybuzz and have separate alerts for every type of message.

I only separate Gmail because that's the only way to use the Gmail plug-in.

it gets too hectic if you're an avid email/sms/mms user. so separate is the way to go.

I like to keep them all separate, keeps things organized IMO. SMS first, E-Mail address next to that, the messages folder is all the way at the bottom of my applications screen where it won't get in the way. I only use it to delete sent messages (stupid Gmail app...)

I keep mine separate... More convenient and organized for me

All e-mail in Messages, SMS&MMS separated.

Separate is the way I go. One for my gmail and one for my sms and mms I do alot of texting at work so its best for me to keep them all separate

I was just hoping that you guys would do this poll! Thanks!

all of my sms, mms, and email accounts are together. But I always keep my gmail separate, mostly because i have can see some emails together in the threaded email conversations so it saves up room. :)

I use the centralized Messages app for all of my email and keep SMS and MMS by itself. both are on my homescreen. I always hide the individual account icons.

I like it separated... More convinient for me.

I have everything set to go to Messages. But on themes where I can have a lot of icons on my home screen, I put 3 separate email folders plus SMS. Then I hide the main Messages folder. (I can always get at it by using the App Switcher.)

When using a theme short on real estate, I take the opposite approach and put the individual mailboxes in a folder somewhere while displaying the catch-all.

I prefer the separate approach though. That's why I gravitate to themes with a lot of icon slots.

I use the messages folder for all email, and use the SMS/MMS folder for texting. The individual emails I put in one folder cleverly named as 'Email.' =)

Not to much

I have my device set to "separate" I don't like all of my messages in one folder...

I keep them together mostly, wheras SMS and MMS go to Messages folder along with emails, but I also keep all my email accounts folders separate to view if i choose...to keep that nice little red star there so I always remember to read...

I keep them together mostly, wheras SMS and MMS go to Messages folder along with emails, but I also keep all my email accounts folders separate to view if i choose...to keep that nice little red star there so I always remember to read...

I keep my gmail as one folder and everything else into the message folder.

I combine everything. It saves space on the screen & I don't have to hunt around to find emails or texts.

COMBINED is the only way to go (unless you have 800+ unread emails like my boss).

It's single handedly the reason I switched from WinMo to Blackberry.