Suggest a Folder when Moving e-mails based on Prior History
In a constant battle to manage our Inbox, It would be great to have Outlook suggest a folder where I will most likely want to file an email based on my history. For example, if I receive a Monthly Revenue report from the same person each month and file it in a folder titled "Financial Reports", Outlook could have that folder highlighted for me when I press CTRL-SHIFT-V (or select the Move drop-down in the Ribbon) so that all I have to do is press ENTER to move that message. Folder suggestions could be made from prior email history and actions taken with emails in the current conversation. This would be a huge time-saver versus the current process of scrolling through the list of folders. Also when viewing an email, make it possible to determine the folder path that the email is in. On the email’s File>Info tab, there is “Current Folder: [folder name]” under “Move item to a different folder” but the folder path is not displayed, just the last folder of the path. Please display the full folder path and make it clickable so the user can quickly jump to that folder. Thanks.
John Stebbins
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Robert Piazza
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Something as simple as suggesting one of top three folders that emails from this person gets filed to.
I also would like a search bar in the move button instead of only the last 10 folders used. Outlook on iPhone has a search for folder function but not on desktop. -
Danielle Santos
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Anonymous commented · June 14, 2018 6:17 PM · Flag as inappropriate
It would be nice if Outlook would learn which email subfolder the mail was last moved to like it does on the iPhone. This would be very useful if Outlook did the same when choosing 'Move...
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Kyle
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I created a macro to move emails to the same folder as other emails in the conversation.
https://github.com/KyleWJohnston/outlook-move-to-thread
It is currently working in Outlook 2016.
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Ing. Lele commented
implement AI to automagically create a quick steps to move an email to a "recommended" folder based on previous conversation / machine learning
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Tony Coe
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It would be super helpful if Outlook suggested where to file an email based on context and/or previous filings by user.
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martin.brandhuber@ri-solution.com
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If i want to move an Mail from the Inbox into an existing Folder, it would be very useful to see the Name of the Folder one Level up in the "last used Folder-List" If i have two or more Sub-Folders with the same Name, but different Folder-Name one Level up, its not possible to distinguish which one is the right one.
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Jakub Kamenc
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Hello John,
Thank you for your suggestion.
I'm also looking forward to see this great feature in Outlook - hopefully MS will act on that suggestion.As to the "Also when viewing an email, make it possible to determine the folder path that the email is in. On the email’s File>Info tab, there is “Current Folder: [folder name]” under “Move item to a different folder” but the folder path is not displayed, just the last folder of the path."
- there's a nice way to determine the actual path, see how: https://www.itsupportguides.com/knowledge-base/office-2016/outlook-2016-how-to-see-folder-for-searched-email/
Cheers,
Jakub Kamenc -
Anonymous
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Offer option of multiple 'move to' choices on ribbon instead of an ever changing drop down list as in Outlook 2010
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Honza Tichý commented
What about to use this TagWolf as the example. It is Addon which use machine learning to predicate the folder.
http://www.tagwolf.com -
What about to use this TagWolf as example. It is Addon which use machine learning to predicate the folder.
http://www.tagwolf.com -
Anonymous
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Make "Move to Folder" work like "Quick Steps" in unexpanded menu where it remembers the last place you moved something to. Helps if you go to the same place often.
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Anonymous
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Let the first option to move e-mail from the inbox, to be the same folder that the e-mail's conversation is already stored in.
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Use AI to suggest folder, also based on quick step.
I use "quick steps" to move email in different folders and I would love to have one that say "move to suggested folder" based on previous email or prediction based on title/DL/topic of the email -
J C Lawson
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Make it easier to move emails to there individual files ( push one button and open the whole list of the files up.
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Anonymous
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Use AI to reminder target folder when i am moving a mail with the contextual menu.
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Emilio
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The folders suggested when right-clicking the mesage should start with the folder where other messages of the same CONVERSATION are stored
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Anonymous
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The iPhone learns which email subfolder the mail was last moved to and this would be very useful if Outlook did the same when choosing 'Move...'
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Jacinto Perez
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Please add this kind of functionality to archive messages button in the right band https://youtu.be/gDZU3R6wF_Y
Is Simplyfile oneclick sugested move to folder button. Based in content and previous actions Outlook would be able to sugest a folder to archive the mail including "trash folder" -
Anonymous
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When viewing an email, make it possible to determine the folder path that the email is in. On the email's File>Info tab, there is "Current Folder: [folder name]" under "Move item to a different folder" but the folder path is not displayed, just the last folder of the path. Please display the full folder path and make it clickable so the user can quickly jump to that folder. Thanks.
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Emilio
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Two needs:
1. Have a 'Search folder' field when trying to move one message, avoiding to scroll down through all teh 120 folders (in my case)
2. One of the suggested folders should be the one where the other messages of the conversation are already stored.
Thanks.
