I really do, its true. I like outlook, it works the way my brain does. I find Notes primitive, disorganized, and far to complicated. Also, Active Sync doesn’t work with it. So, here is my workaround, keep in mind this only works for email, and it isn’t pretty. I have at work 2 emails, lets say for the sake of privacy jeff@a.com and jeff@b.com. I setup 2 email address to match a@jeffreyhann.com and b@jeffreyhann.com, just to keep everything separate the way notes keeps it. Now, I tell notes that every time a email comes to jeff@a.com send it to a@jeffreyhann.com, and same with jeff@b.com. I tell outlook that for every message in a@jeffreyhann.com, reply with jeff@a.com, and same with b@jeffreyhann.com. Now, I have them both checking email ever minute, and check everything from outlook. The problem with this is that the email never gets deleted on notes, so I will have to manually delete/organize message there. I’m hoping I can do this once a month, depending on email traffic. The main benefit of this is that my new phone (that I will get tonight) HTC Touch, supports push email via active sync + outlook. So I will now have instant and 24/7 access to my work email. I can set this up for any of my email address, I just have to set it up in outlook.
I mentioned earlier, this only works for my email, and for the most part, my calender is filled with items that do not need to be shared, I will have to use notes calender when I need something public unfortunately.
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