Communication is crucial to how we work and play, and thus email has become one of the major methods of communication in a digital age. Which means choosing your email client is pretty important. Especially if you’re hounded by email messages on almost a minute by minute basis. One of the biggest features that anyemailclient needs is the ability to organize the trash from the splash. And fortunately, Outlook does that way better than Gmail. Here’s how this app helps keeps me focused and my inbox perfectly manicured:
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Trial and error
A fine Outlook
I have been an Android user for many years and never really got along with any version of Gmail for a few reasons. Firstly, it always felt very different from the web app. I know Google has ditched some of the hopeless features and become more streamlined. It didn’t feel like a polished product. Second, adding additional email accounts to the Gmail app became a headache, and creating filters to sort email in the app was also missing.
Weirdly it wasn’t until I bought the Surface Duo (and Surface Duo 2) and started to useOutlookthat I realized I had actually started to email again and felt a little more productive. Away from the cluttered mess of Gmail I had email preview, as well as a focused mode which filters out bulk and general junk email that crowded my inbox.
With less noise and less chaos, a calmer me was born.
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Staying focused
Taking care of business
Having this feature certainly makes me less distracted, which is quite the feat since my phone is connected to the biggest distraction of them all, the internet.
Outlook for Android has really helped me get around the issue of distraction either working on phone or tablet, where it really excels (see what I did there).
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Signatures that work
Sign your name
Email signatures need to match the desktop client. Personally, I don’t want people knowing I’m answering emails on my phone or from a desktop. Think of it as a seamless experience when communicating with someone else.
Outlook gives me the chance to do that. I simply add the HTML from something like an email signature generator (Hubspothas an excellent one that’s free) and paste that into my desktop client, save the same HTML intoGoogle Keep, and on your handset copy the HTML from Google Keep into your Outlook.
Both signatures are now the same and very easy to do.
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Calendar and News
The calendar feature supports Google Mail orGmailas well as calenders for other providers. Which is super handy.
The channels feature gives you the chance to make your own curated newsfeed for certain outlets or by topic. I like this feature quite a bit as it does help you filter out the news you just don’t want to see. This all inside the Outlook app.
Outlook ticks all the biggest boxes of all, which is easy to find, use and filter out the noise of email with the convenience of a curated newsfeed.
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