E-mail is an incredibly useful tool that allows me to do my job more efficiently, and is also a major distraction and headache. I can drop my a quick note in between phone calls, which is an inexpensive alternative to long distance charges, but I also can waste 20 minutes weeding through spam and advertising.

My assumption is that most people who interact with e-mail have a similar love-hate opinion of it.

Hand’s down, the best e-mail client on the market is Gmail by Google. Google is constantly working to keep spam out of your inbox, and offer a number of useful features — the best of these are tagging and searching. If you don’t have a Gmail account and want one, go here.