Gmail has added yet another feature, and this time it is something that will possibly keep your email box far more organized.

As someone who has always has an overflowing inbox, this is one that will ease my life quite a bit.  Just go to the Labs tab and activate “Send & Archive” and this will enable the ability to archive the emails out of your inbox as soon as you reply to them, lessening your work by one step.

The only drawback seems to be that archiving sends them to the all encompassing “All Mail” folder, so you will need to make sure to label the mails before you respond to them so that they will go to the proper label area.  You do still have the option to just “Send” and not archive, so you won’t be forced to archive everything.  As someone who does with hundreds of emails a day, this is like a dream come true.

You can read a bit more at the Official Google Mail Blog.