MLO syncing over Cloud sync and Dropbox on two computers - emails on Outlook

[kitus]

Hello everyone,

Anybody out there with multiple computers and using task creation by dragging emails into the talk list? I simply love that feature, but I have one corporate computer, and a personal laptop. This means that I may want to pull up one specific mail linked to a task, at any of those two computers. This doesn't work right now as the result of dragging one email is a link to it pointing to the pst it was created from.

Anybody else in the same boat?

Thanks and I look forward to your commens,

Marc

[robisme]

I've installed windows 8 and outlook 2013 : no link is working anymore.

Worse, even when link works, it's lost because of index in outlook is not the same.

I really doubt that this function can e used on 2 different computers with 2 different outlook files.

I'd really like a feature that, rather than pointing to a specific pst, points to a search field in outllok with the title of the mail.

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi. Kitus. I drag from outlook to MLO a *lot* because it's the fastest way of making a task out of an email. I could also forward the email to the cloud server for "MLO by Email" but that's more work. Once the task is created, I work from the task note which contains the email body. I don't use the outlook link much because it's not reliable. As soon as the email moves to a different folder within outlook, the link has a high risk of failure. I don't even touch dropbox for MLO because (as I understand it) dropbox can only copy the whole profile from one machine to another, it cannot merge changes made on two machines.

By way of comparison, when you make an Evernote from an email, the email gets copied to a website and the note links to it. This is slick, clean and reliable but it also publishes the content of your email to anyone who can learn or guess the URL.

Fyi here's the routine I'm using with Outlook. I empty my inbox daily. My inbox view is sorted by flag status, with unflagged on top. Each message is either (a) deleted unread, (b) read and dealt with immediately, or (c) to become a task. I get about 300 email/day, about 7 become tasks on avg. If something is to be a task I click the flag icon and it drops to the flag group which generally puts it out of sight. When all unflagged tasks are gone I select all and drag to the MLO inbox. I confirm that I want a separate task per message, then go back to Outlook and hit Delete. Done.

[kitus]

Hello there,

I thank you for taking the time to provide the details on how you process your inbox. Please, let me ask you a couple a questions so I get the whole picture if I may.

First, when you want to respond to the original mail lets assume the link does not work. What do you do then? Do you simply perform a search on the email client? I find it so powerful that when I request something to somebody, I then drag my own email to a specific folder which I know will make the new task inherit context such as @wait, #Person... Immediately then I set a reminder for when I want to be reminded to do follow-up on the requested action, and when the time is over (reminder goes off), I simply click on the link and respond to my own email demanding a response. Ain't that powerful?? I honestly think it is... If I can't quickly find my original mail, the whole process gets a little less pro, right? You are right tough, the most import thing is that an action gets created on the fly, I agree on that.

Second, could you please give a little more detail on how you process your mails? If I understood it correctly, you don't drag your emails into MLO until you have not cleared out the ones which arent actionable, am I wrong? When you say you flag your emails, do you mean you add this red Outlook icon named follow-up, or are you using any sort of flaggin that i don't know?

Thanks a lot in advance. I wish MLO actually attached the whole email to the note. That would be extremely powerful.

Regards,