How to open email folders

Question

on my ITouch I use my gmail all the time and put notes into email folders, but cannot just open an folder and look at contents or retrieve a note......Apple was unable to help me with this

Answer 1

If you are tapping the icon at the top of the screen that looks like a folder with a downward pointing arrow then you are filing the currently shown email into the folder that you then select - which is why the email is disappearing from your screen as you've moved it out of the currently displayed folder into a different one.
To display a different folder, then if you are holding the iPad in portrait orientation then tap the button that shows at the top left of the screen which should be the name of the current folder (e.g. Inbox) and you should then get a list of the emails in that folder. If you are holding the iPad in landscape orientation then the list of emails is always shown on the left-hand side of the screen.
At the top left of that list should be your email account id; tap that and you should get a list of the folders that exist in that account, and if you tap one of them you should see the emails that are within that folder, and tapping one of those emails should display its content. If you have more than one email account set up on the iPad then at the top of the list of the folders you should see a Mailboxes button which allows you to go up another level from where you can then select a different email account and you can select a folder within that account.