Category: EmailTags for Outlook

Emails are supposed to make your workplace communications easier and smoother. However, many people end up having a cluttered inbox which they don’t have control over. Email clutter can hinder your productivity in the exact same way as a messy office does. If you feel overwhelmed by the number of…

  You can make your emails more organized and findable even if don’t like email filing. The secret is categorizing (or tagging your emails) While we personally recommend archiving emails out of the Inbox, we know that there are many people who choose to leave them in the Inbox. Outlook…

You can now organize your emails using tags (labels/categories) instead of folders. We have just released a MAJOR update to Outlook addon Email Tags. Tagging emails provides a simple alternative to organizing emails in folders. We have done to Outlook with EmailTags what Gmail did with labels. With EmailTags you…

The theme for this month has been email filing and clean inboxes. This week we look at the three common mistakes that result in lost emails and cluttered Inboxes. Over the last 15 years we have helped thousands of Outlook users get their emails organized and their Inboxes clean. In…

Last week I sent out an email to almost 40,000 readers asking them what they wanted help with. The overwhelming answer was some way of managing and organizing emails. In this post I look at the two main ways of organizing emails… Folders and Tags. We will look at the…

Many of our users now use Email Tags to organize their emails instead of folders. We had recently updated Email Tags with a new search screen that was much easier to use. It had removed some functionality that we thought that users did not need. We were wrong. Several users…

The latest version of EmailTags for Outlook is now available for download from our website. This update is free for all existing users. The updates includes a number of “new” features as well as bug fixes. What’s New? EmailTags Outlook addin has had a great response from users. We continuously get…

A recent study by the University of California found that email technologies are now so good that filing emails into folders may actually make them harder to find! It also wastes more of your time both filing and finding emails. I moved my own email organization system to a non-folder…

A reader recently asked if it was possible to edit the Subject of Outlook emails. He wanted to put in terms that would make the emails easier to find using Outlook Search later. The short answer is YES. Here is how to edit the subject: Open Outlook Double-click on the…

There has been a shift away from filing things into folders and to using tags/categories over the last few years. This can be seen in programs such as EverNote, Gmail, Picasa… Here is a simple way that you can apply tagging to your emails in Outlook. We’ve built Email Tags…

This update has a number of MAJOR new features that users have been asking for. The update is free for existing users. A Better Search Members of our team agreed with users that the Search screen was not as easy to use as it could be. Although people have started…

Last week we had some tips on searching Outlook emails. Here’s how you can tweak things further by controlling where Outlook searches by default. Outlook 2013/2016 Type anything in the Search Box and Outlook will search the current folder except if you’re in the Inbox. If you’re in the Inbox,…

I recently changed my Outlook email organization system from filing emails in separate folders to putting them all in one folder and then organizing them with Tags (Categories). Tagging emails is similar to Gmail style labels but is now available inside Outlook using Email Tags for Outlook. An email that…

Do you file emails out of the Sent Items into dedicated archive or project folders? You should… but you still may want to keep a copy in the Sent Items folder too. Here’s the how and why. There are two main ways in which people keep their emails organised… using…