Postit notes for Outlook 2010?!

osaddictosaddict London, UK
edited December 2010 in Science & Tech
I can't count the number of times I've received an email which has then been followed up by a call or a chat, the result is that I'd like to attach a couple of brief notes to an email so that when I return to it I remember and everything is in the one place, not in a notepad somewhere etc.

Does anyone else have this issue, if so, what's your way around it?!

You know how in Excel you can add a comment to a cell? - That's what I am looking for, but in Outlook!

Any ideas? (Free!)

Cheers in advance!

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2010
    You can always open an email, right click on it and edit it. Then just add your notes to it - in a different colour perhaps - and keep it all contained.

    Then I'd suggest once you've edited an email that way. Flag it a different colour by right clicking on the email - choose followup then select a flag.

    Next you can then sort your email box by it's flags and group them that way.

    While it's no post it note. It should accomplish exactly what your looking to do.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited December 2010
    One other option is that you can, in fact, add an editable cell to your Outlook view that you can add notes to inline:

    1) Right click on column header and go to "customize current view"
    2) Select the "Fields" option
    3) In the "show fields" window, go to the "select available fields from" box and scroll down until you find "user defined field" and select that option.
    4) Choose "New Field" and create a your custom field. "Type" allows you to choose if it's a free-text or other form.
    5) Now you need to set it so you can edit it right from the Inbox view, so you can type in your comments. Go back to the "customize current view" window and select "Other Settings." When this window pops up, make sure the "allow in-cell editing" check box is checked.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2010
    Neat trick. If only you could have that field expand when you arrow over it instead of basically be stuck to one fixed size and one line of text. Still though I could see some uses for it.
  • boasistboasist Troy
    edited December 2010
    What about just flagging the email. That is what I do, it then becomes a task you can name (your notes) and the original email gets linked. Works great for me, good luck.
  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited December 2010
    kryyst wrote:
    You can always open an email, right click on it and edit it. Then just add your notes to it - in a different colour perhaps - and keep it all contained.

    Then I'd suggest once you've edited an email that way. Flag it a different colour by right clicking on the email - choose followup then select a flag.

    Next you can then sort your email box by it's flags and group them that way.

    While it's no post it note. It should accomplish exactly what your looking to do.

    Didn't know about the edit side of things. Took a while to find it in the new version (2010) of Outlook. Seems it's in the 'move' section of the ribbon under actions.

    That in a different colour will be perfectly sufficient for my needs. I use categories in emails so I could create a new category to show I've annotated it if necessary.

    Cheers kryyst :D
  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited December 2010
    Snarkasm wrote:
    One other option is that you can, in fact, add an editable cell to your Outlook view that you can add notes to inline:

    1) Right click on column header and go to "customize current view"
    2) Select the "Fields" option
    3) In the "show fields" window, go to the "select available fields from" box and scroll down until you find "user defined field" and select that option.
    4) Choose "New Field" and create a your custom field. "Type" allows you to choose if it's a free-text or other form.
    5) Now you need to set it so you can edit it right from the Inbox view, so you can type in your comments. Go back to the "customize current view" window and select "Other Settings." When this window pops up, make sure the "allow in-cell editing" check box is checked.

    That is a neat trick indeed. Again, the Outlook 2010 interface meant it took some time for me to find what I wanted, sorted now though.

    I can potentially use both methods. Some emails require the briefest of notes (in which case I'll use this method), some require quite a bit, in which kryyst's method :D

    Thanks both!
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