Creating new categories for Notes

I just wasted half an hour filing my Outlook notes in a new category. By
mistake, I chose "By Folders" instead of "By Views." I went through them all
and moved them to a new folder called "Frequent" (I thought I was moving them
to a new category). When I went to see them all together, NONE of them were
there. I finally found that they had all been created in a new folder called
"Frequent"--in Deleted Items. Who makes moving something to Deleted Items the
default task?! I could have lost all my most important notes. The whole way
categories work in Outlook is terrible anyway--the distinction between
categories and the Master Category list seems pointless. This has finally
pushed me to get rid of Outlook. I'm moving to Agent for mail and my Palm
software for calendar, tasks, memos, and contacts.

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Let me get this straight: You're blaming Outlook because you didn't notice that you were looking at the By Folder view instead of the By Category view?

Outlook 2007 makes major changes in the way categories are created, managed, and displayed, but even it can't read your mind if you pick the wrong view.

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"litlfrogvt" wrote in message ...
I just wasted half an hour filing my Outlook notes in a new category. By
mistake, I chose "By Folders" instead of "By Views." I went through them all
and moved them to a new folder called "Frequent" (I thought I was moving them
to a new category). When I went to see them all together, NONE of them were
there. I finally found that they had all been created in a new folder called
"Frequent"--in Deleted Items. Who makes moving something to Deleted Items the
default task?! I could have lost all my most important notes. The whole way
categories work in Outlook is terrible anyway--the distinction between
categories and the Master Category list seems pointless. This has finally
pushed me to get rid of Outlook. I'm moving to Agent for mail and my Palm
software for calendar, tasks, memos, and contacts.

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No, I'm annoyed with myself for not noticing that distinction. (I'd never
used that function before.) I'm annoyed because as I moved my notes one by
one to the new folder, the new folder itself was in Deleted Items. If I had
happened to empty my Deleted Items before double-checking the notes, I would
have lost important information.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Let me get this straight: You're blaming Outlook because you didn't notice that you were looking at the By Folder view instead of the By Category view?

Outlook 2007 makes major changes in the way categories are created, managed, and displayed, but even it can't read your mind if you pick the wrong view.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx