Annotating in Outlook Express?

[Rehan]

I use Outlook Express as my main e-mail client at work and at home... Typically, I have a bunch of e-mails sitting in my Inbox that are essentially my "to do" pile -- things which need action or a reply.

What I would like to be able to do is to add a note for each message, and have that note appear on the list of messages, alongside sender name, subject, receive date, etc. But Outlook Express doesn't have this functionality.

There's an e-mail client called PocoMail that essentially has this feature (http://www.pocomail.com/help/viewing.html#annotating)... But I don't want to switch from Outlook Express.

Can anyone suggest a way to accomplish what I'm looking for? If there's any solution out there, it'll likely be some utility program or an Outlook Express add-on... I'm willing to pay for something that works well.

[PGT]

Just checking... Outlook isn't an option for you?

[Rehan]

It's an option for work, but not for home... While I'll pay for software, I can't really justify the cost of Outlook. :)

Why, does Outlook have this option?

[PGT]

Yeah, Outlook let's you create user-defined fields and to display and sort by that field.

[Rehan]

Okay, I added the user-defined field in the view for listing messages, but how do I edit the contents of that field for a particular message? :?

[PGT]

Whoops, sorry!

I was going to say, you need to add the field to the default form for e-mails... but turns out you can only add it to the compose form, not the read form (at least not as an editable field), so that's no use to you. Sorry!

[Rehan]

Bump. I'm still hoping to do something like this. Hopefully in Outlook Express, but I might be willing to switch to Outlook. As a last resort, I guess I could go to PocoMail.

This will help explain what I want (look for the bright red boxed area):

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/1306/annotated7lq.png