Posted by Nerino Petro: "Simplify your life--we hear that advice time and again, but it's usually easier said than done. Think about how you spend your time each day, including the ways in which technology has actually increased your stress levels rather than decreased them. Nowhere is this truer than with e-mail, which consumes much of every workday. But there is a product to help Microsoft Outlook users gain control.
Lawyers rely on Microsoft Outlook for their e-mail management, calendaring and contact management, and many would be lost without the program. Yet while each new version makes significant improvements over prior versions, Outlook still lacks tools to help users easily manage their messages.
Consider how you typically move messages into the correct Outlook folders: by dragging them from your inbox into the correct folder; by using the Move to Folder command from the context menu; or by creating an Outlook rule to automatically move messages meeting certain requirements into the designated folder. The first two methods are time-consuming and require too much user intervention. And the last, while useful for messages tied to specific senders, topics or e-lists, is impractical for the majority of e-mail, which can't be easily quantified or filtered by rules.
Enter SimplyFile by TechHit. I've been using SimplyFile for some time (along with its sister product EZDetach) and I'm impressed by its accuracy and its impact on working more efficiently with Outlook..."
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Source: Nerino Petro's Compujurist.com, 18 December 2008
