Enable reminders for non-default folders in Outlook

  • Article

By default, Outlook only displays reminders for four
default folders:

- Inbox (for items flagged for follow up with a date for the reminder)

Contacts (for flagged contacts, i.e. "call this guy")
  • Tasks
  • Calendar

But if you need them in other folders (such as
a "Family" contacts folder, or a secondary calendar), Outlook MVP Ken
Slovak has written Reminder
Manager, which enables reminders for other folders.

 

On a related note, customers ask us to include
bajillions (or at least it seems like that many : -) of features in
Exchange and Outlook every day. Of course we can't accomodate all requests,
but part of the beauty of these products is the ability to extend them with add-ins
like Ken's or any of the many others available.

 

For example, several years ago, I mentioned to
Ken that I wanted to be able to get at the internet headers on a received message
without going to the View | Options menu (As I've mentioned, I'm a big keyboard junkie,
so reducing keystrokes on common operations is important to me)... so he quickly whipped
out a custom form with a button that displayed the internet headers. All I had to
do was configure Outlook to use that custom form as the default form when reading
a message. This was one of the events that inspired me to learn how to extend Outlook
myself, and I've since then used VBA code or custom forms in Outlook to perform lots
of time-saving or just fun and geeky things.