Email to daily note page function?

[Nimishim]

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if anybody had an idea of how to set this up or if there is
a powertoy available to do the following: When I am in outlook reading my
email, I often send the emails to my onenote in order to keep a daily record
of my email interactions and data. I keep a daily notepage as well as
somewhat of a journal section. When I move the items from my outlook to
onenote, it goes into the unfiled section and I have to end up moving it to
my daily note page section. I also have to manually make a note page for
each day in the morning. I am curious if I can set onenote to setup a daily
note page every day without me having to manually do it and I am curious if
there is anyway to automatically send copy of any email I respond to or
generate automatically to a daily note day page that is generated. Can a
function be linked to the send button in outlook to do this? I like to
review my email in outook and keep my inbox clean and prefer to use onenote
to hold all information regarding email interactions. Thanks for any help.

In essence, I would like to be able to integrate my email review and storage
in my daily journal note area as well as set up an automatic daily note page
in my daily journal notebook section. It would allow me to track my
activities better in one unified spot.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I was wondering if anybody had an idea of how to set this up or if
there is a powertoy available to do the following: When I am in
outlook reading my email, I often send the emails to my onenote in
order to keep a daily record of my email interactions and data. I
keep a daily notepage as well as somewhat of a journal section.

Makes sense in a certain way.
Reminds of the way we used to work in my law office <g> (with every
piece of paper being typed we always made an extra carbon copy on green
paper and stored this in the "Master Copy" folders; Myomy long, long ago
... )

I for one, however, would see a huge disadvantage with your conceptual
model:
Things sent into ON this way appear as *images*. Therefore one can not
copy things from the mail and paste them elsewhere. Therefore I hardly
ever *print* mail objects from OL; I use copy+paste instead.
But that's just my way and the personal needs differ.

When I move the items from my outlook to onenote, it goes into the
unfiled section and I have to end up moving it to my daily note
page section.

This makes things even more complicated than just copying the mail in
OL, and paste it onto your journal page.

If you want to work with *printing* could make it easier by setting up
ON to print to the *current*page* (Tools |Options | Send to OneNote).
The drawback: *All* printouts would always go to the currently selected
page and when printing something else into ON you have to first open a
page as the destination.

I also have to manually make a note page for each
day in the morning. I am curious if I can set onenote to setup a
daily note page every day without me having to manually do it and I
am curious if there is anyway to automatically send copy of any
email I respond to or generate automatically to a daily note day
page that is generated.

No. There is no way to have this done automatically - unless you (or
someone else) would program a PowerToy.

Can a function be linked to the send button in outlook to do this?

As above.

I like to review my email in outook
and keep my inbox clean and prefer to use onenote to hold all
information regarding email interactions.

I agree that keeping things in the *INBOX* in OL is not a good way of
working with mail.

But: Why not create your own hierarchy of folders - f.e. for different
topics - for storing mails?
It's easy enough to see the daily activities if the sort order is
chronological. Outlook does nicely group the messages.
And as one can put sent-mails and received mails in the same folder,
this keeps everything together.

But the way to works differs from user to user. And it depends on the
needs, especially on the volume of the mail traffic. I for one could not
handle the daily mail traffic just with ON.

In essence, I would like to be able to integrate my email review
and storage in my daily journal note area

This can be done with a number of drawbacks.

as well as set up an
automatic daily note page in my daily journal notebook section. It
would allow me to track my activities better in one unified spot.

Creating an "automatic" handling can not be done without (not yet
existing) add-ons.

HTH
Rainald

 

[John Guin]

I wrote a powertoy a while ago which sends mail with a keyword in the subject
( "onon" ) directly to OneNote. It requires Outlook 2007 and OneNote 2007.

You can get it here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/02/06/powertoy-outlook-to-onenote-addin.aspx.
Codeproject also hosts the source code if you want to modify it to send to a
different section than Unfiled Notes.

I hope this helps!

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I wrote a powertoy a while ago which sends mail with a keyword in
the subject ( "onon" ) directly to OneNote. It requires Outlook
2007 and OneNote 2007.

You can get it here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/02/06/powertoy-outlook-to-onenote-addin.aspx.
Codeproject also hosts the source code if you want to modify it to
send to a different section than Unfiled Notes.

Thanks a lot, John!

Rainald