Welcome back folks… today we are sharing with you another tip which was shared by a Outlook user.
This is not something that I do myself but I am sharing this as several users indicated that they use these technique. Some background first…
Several readers said that they prefer to have emails that they need to follow up on in their Inbox i.e. after they have sent an email; they would like to have a copy of the email in their Inbox too. The two techniques shared by users were:
BCC Yourself on emails that you need to follow up on
This is easy… simply BCC yourself on emails that you are sending out and you want/need to follow up on.
After the email is sent, you will also receive a copy in your Inbox. Because you have BCC’ed yourself, the other recipients will not know that you were also a recipient.
Or Use a Rule to copy sent emails to your Inbox
You can also setup a Rule to copy ALL emails that you send to your Inbox. Once the email copies arrive in your Inbox, manually Delete the emails that you don’t need to follow-up on.
As mentioned earlier… I don’t use this technique myself but users say that the extra Delete step takes almost no time.
I personally think having copies of emails in your inbox that you will not be working on immediately can be distracting and unproductive… having so many emails in the inbox makes me feel I haven’t done my work today (when in fact I have)
How I personally organize my Follow-ups in Outlook you may ask?
Well in my most biased opinion… I personally use eeminders for Outlook and like the fact that it automatically pops a reminder for emails that I need to deal with on the day that I actually need to deal with it.
- This does not cause my Inbox to be cluttered with follow-up emails and
- I don’t have to scroll through emails to find the one I need to deal with. Eeminders reminders me when I need to work on a email.
There is no right or wrong way of doing this… it’s just a matter of preference so I leave the choice to you to choose the best method that suits your style of work.
If you are interested to try eeminders, you can download a fully functional 30 day trial from our website.
Let us know which method you prefer by leaving a comment below.
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Very good article, what about including yourself in Bcc? You will receive your own email and from there creating a Tasks with attachment.
And finally archive the email with Shift+Ctrl+v moving it to the relevant folder
That sounds fine.