Many of the people who use gmail are not in a habit of using the “Archive” button in their inbox they usually delete the mails. After reading these reasons as posted on the Gmail Blog i think you will like press the “Archive” button rather than deleting your read mails.

Archiving just means moving your inbox mail in safekeeping. Your messages will be waiting for you when you click “All Mail” or search for them.

These are the reasons why you shuld you use Archiving in Gmail.

• Fate-tempting is bad. You just never know
  Thirty-one days after you send that message to the Trash and it gets permanently deleted, you’re going to need it. Don’t tempt the fates.

• Because you can
  May as well use the free storage space. Plus, clean inbox = clean mind.

• That guy
  Remember that guy you thought you’d never need to get in touch with ever again?

• Birthdays
  Search for “grandma birthday” and voila, find the message you sent her last April. Aren’t you glad you archived instead of deleted?

• Mailing lists
  Do you really need to know what Clintobamccain is doing every day? Auto-archive* their messages until you want to donate again.

• Winning arguments
  “But on May 5, 2005 at 8:43pm EDT you said….”

• Posterity
  Just because you’re not famous now doesn’t mean that in forty years (or fifteen minutes) you won’t want to write your memoir.

• Procrastination
  Sometimes you want to get a message out of your inbox, but you don’t want to deal with organization, and you don’t want to trash it.

• Phone numbers and addresses
  You never know when you’ll need a phone number someone emailed you or an address that was in a signature.

Are you bored of the same old looks of your Gmail then you will surely love the post by Thilak at Techbuzz in which he tells you about giving your Gmail inbox a dark makeover.