Among the most useful developments in modern times is the use of electronic mail or messages (email) for efficient correspondence around the world. As numerous email items accumulate in the inbox or data store for a user, attempts are made to sort the items by priority, follow-up, alphabetically, or by filing the emails in folders for future reference or follow-up. Manually filing emails in folders can be an undesirable and costly activity yielding fruitless results. Frequently emails sought for retrieval cannot be found easily or at all because a user may not remember where the email is filed or located.
Previous email applications have the capability to auto-file and search for email items meeting user specified search criteria, however auto-file rules scatter a user's messages to different folders before they have been viewed. Furthermore, the search filters have complicated dialogs and the searches are time consuming and costly intensive and time consuming thereby hindering the utility of existing email applications. This problem is further complicated by the incapability of email items to exist in more than one folder without copying the item to multiple folders. When email items are copied to multiple folders and one copy is updated or deleted the other copies are stored in their original form thereby leading to confusion and a waste of memory.
Accordingly, there is a need for a method, system, and computer-readable medium for providing persisting and continuously updating search folders that allow for efficient, consistent, and user-friendly organization and reorganization of email items. It is with respect to these and other considerations that the present invention has been made.