I have been testing my workflow a bit recently – mainly on moving emails that require replying to @Reply folder. Now once I found any email that needs to reply:

Press reply immediately Within 1 or 2 minutes, I will write down any thoughts I have If I can finish replying within 2 minutes, I will send it out immediately. If not, I will save it into my draft folder. Finally, I assign a time to reply all those pending emails that require a chunk of time.

The biggest advantage that I see from this workflow is that I will not need two folders for email-needs-reply anymore. Second, all those thoughts that I got when reading the emails will be preserved and written down. Any suggestions or comments on this?