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Posted by Franz Grieser
Aug 8, 2009 at 03:03 PM
Ken
>I just wonder if there will be an easy way to attach the entry to the message
>so I can have the entry immediately
>avaialable when I look at the message.
That is not possible. You get that information only when in the Journal and not in the email module.
Another solution: Get an application/add-in that automatically saves all emails from certain clients to your hard disk. The mails will be stored in a text format (HTML, text only, MSG, ...) and can then be processed by other applications.
An inexpensive add-in that does that - and much more - is Outlook Attachment Sniffer (http://www.rsbr.de/index_eng.htm). A lifetime licence costs 15 Euro (about $18).
Franz
Posted by Ken
Aug 9, 2009 at 02:08 AM
Thank you for the suggestions. I will need to think more about how I want to proceed. I did ask about One Note, since they just installed Office 2007. It appears that One Note was not part of the license. It just seems so simple that you would think that a notes field would be an integral part of the program.
—Ken
Posted by 1tim
Aug 18, 2009 at 07:57 PM
An alternative solution…
What about Treepad with ABC Amber Outlook Converter?
You would select messages from Outlook, run the converter, and open them in Treepad as separate nodes. Then you would be able to organize, annotate, and do all that Treepad does.
Posted by Ken
Aug 24, 2009 at 03:22 PM
1tim wrote:
>An alternative solution…
>
>What about Treepad with ABC Amber Outlook
>Converter?
>
>You would select messages from Outlook, run the converter, and open
>them in Treepad as separate nodes. Then you would be able to organize, annotate, and do
>all that Treepad does.
>
Thanks for this suggestion. I will look into it and see if it is possible givne our IT policies at work.
—Ken
Posted by Tom S.
Aug 24, 2009 at 08:09 PM
Ken,
I would appreciate it if you would let us know if you find an appropriate solution to this problem. The more I think about it, the more I am frankly astounded that there is no good way to annotate an email in these programs without an addin. Outlook isn’t the only one with the deficiency. You would have thought the guys at Google would have set something up with Gmail if nothing else. Its a massive hole, particularly since people rely more and more on indexing search engines to find their reference materials now a days. I’ve run into similar problems annotating files without third party programs because I need a cross-platform solution and every file system is different. But that is a problem for another day, I guess.
Thanks,
Tom S.