Tagging, Search and Project View in Outlook

Posted on 22 April 2008 by Ed Robinson

When we started building the ActionThis Outlook 2003 and 2007 add-ins 18 months ago, I gave the product team a brief:

• Make the experience as natural as possible - people want Outlook to behave like Outlook
• No splash screens - I hate anything that wastes my time just to advertise their product
• Integrate with Outlook's existing Inbox, tasklist, reminders and email - don't make people learn something new
• Don't mess with performance, stability or security
• Don't load the Outlook main window up with new toolbar icons

I detest software that takes over my computer, looks ugly or continually pesters me with splash screens. So the ActionThis Outlook client simply helps you assign and work with action items - quietly, securely, no impact on performance, with a natural experience for Outlook 2003 and 2007 users.

Recently, after a lot of thought, we added one new toolbar button to Outlook's main window - its an incredibly important one. The "explorer" button opens a window with action items grouped by project. It also enables you to tag/categorize action items and search.

Here is where to find the button, have fun exploring:

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