I wrote this text in my LinkedIn posts first, and now realize that it would be better to have it all in one place. Keeping my original text as is.

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About four years ago I faced with tremendous amount of emails sitting in my Outlook Inbox and waiting for me to do something.

There are, as you may guess, only three simple actions:

1. do something (this is the most difficult, of course)
2. archive (just archive, or do, and then archive; easy to use, but usually takes a bit of my mind)
3. delete (and of course, do something before, if needed).

To keep my lazy mind in its state of comfort, for the second I’ve developed a small tool, which scans emails and guesses where to put it, either by content or by previous actions done with similar emails in the past.

This tool works perfectly and saves me lots of time, putting the emails in the right folders, more than 100 at the moment. I guess if somebody else deals with lots of emails and needs the kind of automation like this?

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That was my first post. It got 764 impressions, so I decided to continue and finish it.

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If you want to give it a try, you can do it too 🙂 Just grab the file, unpack, and run the .exe within. Of course, you need to have Microsoft Outlook, in my case, it is 2016.
https://github.com/XCoReD/OutlookEmailsSort/blob/master/OutlookPluginSetup.zip

The source code is nearby. You can grab it and make your own binaries. Or point me to issues. Or fork and fix and do your own bicycle.

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The second post got 1136 impressions. Interestingly, 2 Github users cloned the repository, so I hope my effort is not lost somewhere in the space.

By the way, if you need something that is integrated with desktop versions of MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Project, or PowerPoint, feel free to ask me! 🙂