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How to Automatically Organize Emails to Folders in Outlook?

Do you love spending time in your inbox? I guess no. And if you are spending too much time in your inbox you are definitely killing your productivity. The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) states, that an average worker spends 28% of their workday reading and answering emails. According to research…

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How to Organize Email Folders in Outlook

Does your inbox get flooded with emails sending you straight into panic-mode? Keeping your inbox organized can feel like a job in itself. From composing the right response, following up with a client and keeping tabs on emails that require your attention. One of the most common reasons for having…

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10 EMAIL Tips for Increasing Work Productivity with Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is the business standard for email communication. Most workers around the world start and end their day by checking their emails. Outlook has around 400 million active users worldwide and the number of emails sent around the world will reportedly grow around 333 billion in 2022. As an…

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Have you ever tried setting up Outlook emails into public folders?

In this blog post we will be looking at how you can setup and file emails to public folders and how QuickFile can make it easier on filing emails. What is a Public folder? A Public Folder is a folder that is created on your server by your administrator. That…

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How to send and file emails correctly, while using more than one email account?

Do you have more than one email account that you use to send out emails from (in Outlook)? We recently had a few QuickFile for Outlook customers contacting us with the issue, where they couldn’t send and file emails using their secondary email account in Outlook. Quick-File for Outlook’s Send&File…

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Finding recently filed emails using Filing History

Do you need to quickly find and refer to a recently sent or received email? I recently “discovered” the quickest way to retrieve a recent email that has been filed with QuickFile (thanks to the History screen). QuickFile for Outlook installs inside Outlook and lets you file up to 90…

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Filing Outlook Email to Multiple Folders

If you use folders to organize your emails, you may be wondering how you can copy the same email to multiple folders. In this post, we show you how easy it is using Outlook…and then we give you an even easier way to do it using QuickFile for Outlook. The…

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Getting Things Done (GTD), Cleaner Inboxes and Outlook Thread Filing

In recent years, Microsoft has added more features to view and organize emails by conversation or thread. In this post we show you how you can use QuickFile for Outlook’s new thread filing feature to clean your Inbox faster. We also show you a neat Getting Things Done (GTD) trick…

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What emails did I work on today (and where did I file them)?

We had a strange request from one of our QuickFile for Outlook users that resulted in us bringing back the Filing History screen that we had removed from earlier versions. In this post I explain why users need to know the filing history (to bill clients!) and how you can…

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Becoming more Productivity with QuickFile for Outlook Favorites

QuickFile for Outlook Version 6 has added a new feature called Favorites Folders. Here is how you can use this feature to improve your productivity. In case you’re new to QuickFile: QuickFile for Outlook makes it easy to organize send and received emails into Outlook folders. What are QuickFile Favorites?…

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How to view all emails for a Project/Case/Matter

QuickFile For Outlook (Ultimate Edition) lets you tag emails with the name of the project (or case/matter if you’re a lawyer). The original intention for this was to help with the filing of printed copies of the email. The printed copy would have the name of the project on it…

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Best Practices for Creating an Email Filing System in Outlook

In this post we define best practices for an Email Filing System that will work for lawyers, accountants, engineers, architects and other professionals who do work on discrete projects (or matters if you are a lawyer). The simplest system that you can use for organizing your emails is based on…

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Quick Steps: Add shortcuts to the Outlook ribbon to file your emails

Quick Steps: Add shortcuts to the Outlook ribbon to file your emails This week we continue our series on automating Outlook using it’s built in Quick-Steps feature. I will show you how to use Quick-Steps to add buttons to your Ribbon that will let you file emails to any folder…

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How to have a Clean Inbox and Procrastinate too!

Is you Inbox full of emails that you don’t want to work on but you don’t want to delete either? Here’s a tip on how you can keep them in your Inbox and remove them at the same time.  Confused? Read on. My general strategy to Get Things Done is…

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