Outlook add-on for organising emails hierarchically?

Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 8, 2020 at 10:27 PM

Franz Grieser wrote:
>I am not sure I understand your request.

Franz,
Thanks for your suggestions.

I think I’m a difficult case, as I don’t really like to use Outlook, so ideally I’d prefer to either lift those emails out of Outlook into another software, so I can organise them there, or link to individual Outlook messages from another software, just like I used to do via WorkFlowy to Outlook in Chrome.

I guess I don’t like to use the folders in Outlook because it’s a bit all too permanent. In WorkFlowy if an email does not turn out to be important, it just gets eventually burried and sedimented over by all the newer WorkFlowy items. But, if I ever need to find that email again, I can find it in its hierarchy or through a search.

I realise I was asking for an add-on or add-in in Outlook, but maybe I was asking for the wrong thing then.

Eventually it’s not the email that actually matters but the task or information that it represents or contains. So in WorkFlowy I could just deal with it as a todo or a project item or whatever, and the URL was just there in case I ever needed to look up that email again, to see the rest of the message for context, or if I needed to respond to the people who were copied into the email.

Basically what happened was that my workplace upgraded to Office 365, so suddenly I was able to run the full Windows client on my laptop and to use the nice dark theme on the web client in Chrome, but this has disrupted my existing system that I had with WorkFlowy.

I do need some of the functionality of the full Outlook (previously I just used VMware to dial into the server version, if I ever needed to sort messages via sender or subject etc., which is rather limited in the simplified web version), but now I’m realising that I miss the extra layer of organisation that I had running in WorkFlowy.

I may just need to revert to the super simple web client, so I can have those URL links again…