Outlook Note Tips

I’ve been using the Notes feature of Microsoft Outlook more and more recently. I found it to be a great way to manage my miscellaneous lists.

Creating a Note in Outlook is easy. The Quick-Key method is CTRL-SHIFT-N. Then, type your note and close it by clicking the “X” in the upper right hand corner of the window. Quick and easy.

When using Notes in Outlook, keep in mind that the first line of the note becomes the title. For example, if I want to create a note for books that I want to read, the first line of my note is “Books to Read”. Subsequent entries in that note are the names of the books I want to read.

Here is the list of Outlook notes that I currently maintain.

• Blog Ideas – Things I want to add to this blog someday
• Books to Read
• Dates – Important dates I need to remember. Birthday's, Anniversaries, etc.
  
• Gift Ideas – If I see something that I think would make a great gift for someone, I make an entry here
• Ideas – Just a place to keep seemingly good ideas
• Might Buy – Things I might want to buy
• Movies – Movies that someone told me was good
  
• Quotes – Clever quotes or sayings that I run across
• Tool Ideas – Ideas for computer tools I may want to find or code myself someday
  
• Vacation Days Left/Used
• Vacation Ideas – Where do I want to go
  
• What is… - This is a list for placing those things I want to look up later, a new acronyms, etc.
• Wines – Good wines that I have heard or read about that I might want to try

I don’t spend an inordinate amount of time with these notes (lists), but when I need something from one of them, I am glad I went through the effort to maintain them.