How many times have you requested for information via email and then… nothing. Here’s how you can set a reminder for the person you emailed and for yourself.
In this post, I will show you how to set both the reminders while writing the email.
Set Auto-Reminders for your Recipients
- Open Outlook
- Create a new email
- On the Ribbon, click Follow-up > Add Reminder…
- On the screen that appears, tick the checkbox “Flag for Recipients“
- Tick the Reminder: checkbox
- Select the Date and Time for the reminder to appear in the recipients Outlook
Set Auto-Reminder for Yourself
- On the same screen that you set the reminder for the recipient as above, tick the checkbox “Flag for me“
- Select the Start and Due Date
- Tick the Reminder: checkbox
- Select the Date and Time for the reminder to appear in your Outlook
Now on the date and time you have set, a reminder will automatically appear in the recipients and your Outlook. This way either of you are likely to follow-up on the email in case it has not been dealt with.
If you find this tip useful, you may also want to check out Deborah Savadra’s Make your Outlook email messages un-ignorable on the Legal Office Guru (which reminded me of this topic).
Do you have your own methods of setting reminders in Outlook, please share it with us by leaving a comment below.
Thanks for the link to my post! You covered the topic much more concisely than I did
Great quick tip!
This tip is a pretty good idea except that the full features of the follow-up flag (setting the day and time when it will pop up) are not available for IMAP accounts. They are available for POP accounts.