Find anything in Outlook in seconds!
OK, I'm officially excited. I have so much "stuff" in so many folders in Outlook that I often spend way too much time searching. Yes, I use all sorts of organizational schemes, categories, flags, labels, and other tricks to try to make it obvious (to me) why I filed something where I did. But, I often end up hiding stuff from the person who needs it most... me!
Here's an elegant solution. Lookout gives you the kind of satisfaction Google provides when searching the web when you need to find anything in your Outlook folders - including public folders. The program indexes your Outlook .pst files and public folders and makes everything searchable (and find-able).
Lookout adds a Google-ish toolbar to Outlook and makes finding anything a snap.
I've been chatting with Mike Belshe, one of the developers of Lookout, and he recently wrote the following:
I know that at my last job I had 100,000 emails in my mailbox, and I was spending significant time just filing email messages. (at 5 seconds to file away an email, and 100 msgs per day, that adds up to about 40 minutes per week!). These days I have only two folders: "inbox" and "archive". It's just like the way the web evolved - early on, people used Yahoo to categorize websites and find them. Now, people use the directory much less (although it still has a purpose) and instead they just search...
I'm not sure I'm ready to take the "two folder" plunge myself but I can say uncategorically that after using Lookout to find the same pieces of information that I recently spent far too much time trying to locate manually (i.e. one folder at a time), I'm convinced this should be a part of every serious Outlook user's toolkit.
It's fast. It's free (for now). And it works.
Lookout Software
Lookout is a Microsoft Outlook plug-in that provides advanced, lightning-fast search capabilities to your mailbox. You can use Lookout to search your:
- email
- attachments
- contacts
- calendar
- filesystem
Search results come back almost instantaneously. It's like having Google for your mailbox! But, don't take our word for it. Read what our customers have said about Lookout. Once you have it, it will change the way you read email.
Lookout is free to download. The download is less than 1MB and it installs in just minutes. Lookout never changes any of your data in Outlook, so it's completely safe to use.