To all the advisors - how do you keep organized

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Thanks everyone, I have a special spot for manuals and I also have a binder with each chapter I advise in it, i had folders for each before but i found myself needing the info from other chapters during my visits so now I keep it all in one place.

I communicate with my collegiates mostly via email, very rarely do I call them, if I do it's usually a big deal. That's where my problem is, I came into this position without a lot of documentation (the people before me moved "up" in the organization and not out thankfully) and I want to make sure that the next person will be able to deal with ANYTHING! lol

My biggest problem is deciding which emails are important and which aren't. Sometimes it's very clear and sometimes it's not. Any suggestions that way? I get ALOT of email.