Label sent mail in Gmail to ensure you find all email

Have you ever been in gmail looking for a particular email within a label and not find it? If you’re like me, you’re diligent about labeling email to ensure all of a particular type of email stays in one place. Every now and again, I find that the email that I’m looking for is one that I *sent*. Once I figure this point out it’s easy enough to find the email. When I do find it, sure enough, there is no label. Why? Because labelling outgoing mail isn’t really part of the standard sending-email workflow. This is unfortunate because finding sent email on a particular topic can come in handle. For instance, when proving that you sent or conveyed something in dispute or to resend instructions to someone else. To remedy this problem, any email that I may want to reference in the future, I click the view message link after it is sent and then label it. voila, next time you’re perusing a label for an email, you’re sent mail with appear there as well.