Microsoft blogger and engineer Alan Brown offers up a nicely detailed guide to how Outlook’s flags feature can be used to track current and future tasks. If email is central to your daily workflow, then flags are a well-designed way of making sure you keep on track, especially since they can have associated deadlines.
Ian Palangio
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 3:09 PMIf you really want to drive the use of flags and categories in Outlook 2007, check out Pay It Forward Email Management (PIFEM) that I’ve described and documented here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ianpal/archive/2008/06/03/email-task-and-time-management-with-pifem.aspx
It’s something Angus Logan, Johann Kruse and myself here at Microsoft came up with for managing a lot of emails and tasks.
The deal is that if you try PIFEM, and like it you need to tell 3 other people about it (hence the Pay It Forward part). If it is truely useful, it will grow in popularity.