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Favorite Windows email tricks and plugins

I'm working on an article about email tricks for one of your finer magazines, and -- as you might imagine -- when it comes to the inevitable Windows stuff, I'm a bit light in the useful tips department. So, I turn to you Redmond-using smarties for help.

Do you have a favorite application, plugin, trick, or hack for bending Windows email to your will? Double-credit for Outlook add-ons that garden-variety users can install without fancy root-style access. Whence comes your magic Windows fu?

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I'm a dire-hard mac fan,...

I'm a dire-hard mac fan, but I use Outlook 2000 at work for e-mail. My dirty secret is I'm way better at organizing my e-mail at work. I'm at inbox zero every day, thanks to the keyboard shortcut to move messages into folders.

I changed the settings to turn off the preview pane on the inbox, so I just see the message list. This helps me not "scan" my messages without really dealing with them.

  1. Open one message in its own windows

  2. Deal with it: delete, forward, reply, and or file for later

if file for later:

  1. hit Control-shift-V to pop up a window with my folder list

  2. start typing the name of the folder I want (@ actions, projects, etc) and hit enter to move the message

  3. repeat

 
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