Outlook add-on for organising emails hierarchically?

Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 8, 2020 at 05:56 PM

Is there some kind of an add-on for Outlook that allows you to organise emails hierarchicallly, in an outline-like form?

Alternatively, is there some PIM or outliner software where you could just drag and drop Outlook items directly?

I’m on Windows 7 Pro, using Outlook 365 (the full Outlook client).

Previously I used the simplified Outlook web client in conjunction with WorkFlowy and the Clip to Workflowy Chrome extension.

The great thing about the simple Outlook web client was that each email had a specific URL, and so it was easy to organise emails in WorkFlowy and just click on the URL to get back to the given email in Outlook.

However, recently I switched to the fuller web version of Outlook because I like the option to have a dark theme. The downside is that it does not allow using the specific URL for each message any more.

So I’m stuck with either giving up on the idea of the dark theme or no longer being able to have a hierarchical organisation for important emails.

Any other solutions for this? I realise that are PIMs that may have some integration with Outlook. But I’m really just looking for the simplest drag-and-drop functionality of select emails, rather than managing all emails from yet another software (unless there are some really compelling reasons for doing so).

You may ask why do I use both the Windows version of Outlook and the web-version in Chrome? Because I often switch between my Windows laptop and my various Chromebooks, plus because I like to use the dark theme that the web version has, once I my eyeballs can no longer handle the bright white Outlook in Windows.

Thanks in advance.