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 pop-up to remind you of the follow-up at the time you chose.

To assign a specific status or category to the followup task, assign Followup Initial Status as you create the follow up. The Send Message Control panel will inform you of the followup options you selected as the message is sent.

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.