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How to tag (Categorizing) Outlook email for easier finding
There has been a shift away from filing things into folders and to using tags/categories over the last few years. This can be seen in programs such as EverNote, Gmail, Picasa… Here is a simple way that...
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Improve Outlook Search by Editing the Subject of Received Emails
A reader recently asked if it was possible to edit the Subject of Outlook emails. He wanted to put in terms that would make the emails easier to find using Outlook Search later. The short answer is...
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Myth: Sorting and Organizing emails makes us more productive
A recent study by the University of California found that email technologies are now so good that filing emails into folders may actually make them harder to find! It also wastes more of your time both...
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Removing Suggestions in QuickFile Version 5
Folder recommendations in QuickFile are significantly more accurate in QuickFile Version 5. However there may be cases where you want to remove a suggestion (e.g. if you accidentally used a folder)....
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I know that it’s only been a few weeks since we released the new version of QuickFile but we’ve had so much great feedback from users that we felt had to be implemented and put out there for you to...
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How to Tag (Categorize) Emails in Outlook so that it is easier to find them...
In the last post I showed you how most Outlook users were changing the subject of the emails to make the email findable later. I don’t personally change the Subject of emails. Instead I use Email Tags...
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Outlook Notes Tip: Why (and how) we need to make Notes on Emails in Outlook
I was at a friends office yesterday and observed him rummaging through his desk looking for email printouts… on which he had hand-written notes. We got into a discussion on why we need to make notes...
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Q: Why CTRL-F is NOT Find in Outlook?(Ans: Bill Gates)
Have you ever pressed CTRL-F to find something (in Outlook) to discover that it does not work! For some reason CTRL-F does a Forward instead of a Find. Here’s a bit of history as to why this (strange)...
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Make Outlook search your Inbox Faster
Here’s a little tweak that I did to Outlook Search (in Outlook 2013) to make it work faster for me. What is Outlook Search Outlook displays a Search box at the top of your emails. Simply click in the...
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Organizing Emails: Folders versus Tags
Last week I sent out an email to almost 40,000 readers asking them what they wanted help with. The overwhelming answer was some way of managing and organizing emails. In this post I look at the two...
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