Organizer Review

Thu, 06/30/2011 - 03:33 — quoc

Hi Chris, Here are some initial feedbacks from someone that has a bit of a history (not starting with a fresh .pst)

Is there a way to quickly convert the legacy outlook folder structure into project folders?
It would take long to browse the project folders especially when you have few hundreds items. I have to wait for awhile until the "retrieving artifacts" process is completed but this is not only for the first view. If you click away and back to the project folder the same lengthy "retrieving artifacts" would take place again. Please do research if any chance to improve the speed. The expectation is speed of browsing project folder would match outlook folder browsing speed. I guess this is relying on Microsoft "Search Folder" technology but still wonder if any chance of improvement.
Can workspace be outlook folder too i/o virtual folder?
Can you consider drag-and-drop a project from a workspace to another?
What if the MCL keeps growing over time and gets to a point to be overwhelming with so many categories? Do we have the option to search for a specific category when managing projects on the fly?
Can emails/contacts be assigned with multiple categories/projects like outlook's native support? We might have the same people involve in different projects at one point. So assigning multiple category to a contact is possible and different projects would show the same contact but for some reason I tried but it didn't work for emails even the different categories all stick to the email already. In the real world, not everyone would stick to the discipline of categorizing things. We still have people discussing a bunch of different subjects in one emails. Multiple categories would be helpful.
Is there a refresh button in the project explorer to sync with outlook? Even the actual task has been deleted but the virtual task in project explorer is still there

More to come as I have time to review further. Sorry for many questions.Quoc

Organizer Forum

Tue, 08/09/2011 - 03:20 — quoc

Organizer Review

Hi Chris, Is there any chance to consider below points or am I being to unrealistic?Thanks for your feedback. Q

Wed, 08/17/2011 - 22:35 — Chris

Feedback

Quoc -

Thanks for the thoughtful note - I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner. For some reason I missed this post.

Here are some thoughts for each point:

No tool is built in, however starting a new project folder and shift clicking messages from one folder to the next seems reasonable. However, it's a good idea...
Lots of items - I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I agree there should be some easy filtering or navigation built-in to list just certain items. Probably not something that will be released in the current code branch, however, I've been thinking about how to re-work the Project Explorer to make it more friendly.
Sorry I don't understand this point - perhaps you could clarify?
Yes - drag and drop would be nice. It's a lot more code, but I see the utility of it. Can't make an immediate promise, however, it's on our plan (see point 2).
Two thoughts here - 1) use coding to help keep the projects straight and 2) we need to add an archive capability so that folks can manage down their number of projects.
Good feedback - I'll think more about that one. I think having multiple projects discussed in e-mail seems to be de-focusing, but there's no reason the tool can't support it.
Right next to 'Type a new task' is the refresh button.

Thanks again for your feedback - we've tried to build this tool based on customer's experience, and your feedback is a good example of the engagement we have with everyone. Thank you very much.

Chris

Mon, 08/22/2011 - 07:11 — quoc

Hi Chris, Thanks so much for

Hi Chris, Thanks so much for your feedback. Unfortunately, my trial period has expired. Hopefully some of the items in the wish list can make it to next release. Good luck. Quoc