Followup: Remind Yourself to Check on the Status of a Message

With Followup Msg, quickly and easily create automated reminders of important email responses that you are expecting.

 

As you send email, Followup Msg will create a task to remind you if you have not received a response in a designated amount of time. As you compose a message, click the Followup Msg button and select the time period for your reminder. Choose from the following completion options:

• Cancel the reminder task when you receive a new message in the conversation, regardless of sender
• Cancel the reminder task when you receive a new message in the conversation from a specific sender
• Never cancel the reminder task, regardless of whether you receive further correspondence in the conversation or not

When you send the message, a task with the message subject and the prefix "Followup:" will be created in your tasks list. It will remind you of the follow-up at the time you chose. Enable/Disable the task reminder from the options screen.

To assign a specific status or category to the followup task, assign Followup Initial Status as you create the follow up.

You can also create a Follow-Up task for any message conversation at any time by highlighting the message within Outlook and selecting ClearContext > FollowUp Message from the ClearContext menu.

Quick Options

When creating a follow-up from a composed message, click the top half of the button to open the options dialog.  Alternatively, click the arrow to quickly create a follow-up using one of the options provided (1 day, 2 days, etc.).  Once a follow-up has been created for the current message, the button will remain highlighted.