Exporting files because of harddrive swap

Hi all,
I'm planning on replacing my current harddrive (500GB) for a flashdrive (250GB) and an additional harddrive (1TB) in my Early '11 MBP. Now I'm aware of the fact that restoring a Time Machine copy of my harddrive won't work, as the latest copy is at least 350GB so it simply won't fit on the SSD. So, I've been told that I can manually export and backup my files, but trying to search for the solution through the discussions, I couldn't find the one I was looking for.
My question is: What is the best way to manually backup my files from my Mac, so that I can manually restore them when I get it back, with the new drives? Is it just plain old copying maps to an external drive and putting them back in place? I find it difficult to maintain overview, so if there's anyone who has already done this or knows a good way how to do it, could you please let me know?
For instance, I've been using Outlook for my mail, but I've switched to Mail a little while ago, how can I export my mail so that I can restore it and still browse in old emailmessages in both mailapps?
Thanks in advance,
Axel

Anyone? Is this a bad clone? Should I be able to automatically log in to this new drive?
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