I didn’t fully appreciate the simple brilliance of GMail’s method of grouping emails into conversations until using Outlook at work last week. Conversations + powerful search was a fantastic improvement over sorting individual emails into clunky folders. Going back to the old system is head-bangingly frustrating now.
As it turns out, though, Outlook does have a rudimentary conversation feature (arrange by: conversation). It has problems: if the subject line changes it won’t recognize a thread as being one conversation, it combines separate emails with the same subject line into one thread, and it doesn’t include your replies within threads. Even so, if you stay on top of deleting old emails, it’s a useful feature and brings Outlook a little bit closer to Web 2.0 goodness.
Outlook users, any other tips for making the program more productive?
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