Readers Respond: Which Outlook Add-Ons Do You Have Installed?

What does your Outlook setup look like? Which add-ons would not give up?

What made you choose these extensions in particular, and how do you use them? Whether you use one Outlook add-on or many — or maybe none at all: Share Your Picks

EZDetach

From the makers of Simply File, EZDetach lets me save a bunch of attachments at once while appending additional information to the filename, such as email address and name. Very handy!

—Guest Sue

Ceptara Organizer for Outlook

I use Ceptara's Outlook Organizer to organize my tasks, email, appointments, and contacts by project. It also supports 'processing e-mail' using their 5Ds {Do it, Defer, Delegate, Delete, put it in the Drawer}. I'm able to achieve an empty inbox and have my work aligned with my goals using projects. As a person who makes my living by charging my time, organizing myself by project and being able to track my time makes it very easy to put my billing together. You can tell the add-in is written by a team focused on making you more productive.

—Guest Chris

Invantive Vision

When you are working together in a team or a project, it’s very important that you can share your agenda and information. At my company we use the Outlook add-in Invantive Vision. With Invantive Vision, you can connect your Outlook agenda and have control over your project cost, team-members and hour spending. As a marketeer I can work where I want and when I want. My manager can see on which project I am working on, the hours, spending’s and meetings I have. With this information he can manage the project and even assign colleagues to my projects. http://www.invantive.com/products/invantive-vision

—Guest Juan

OutlookTabs

Having tabbing functionality in Outlook is such a time saver! I practically live in Outlook, so anything which makes me more efficient is always welcome. I used to run Xobni but with Outlook 2010 I don't really need it anymore.

—Guest Dave

Skylook — Outlook + Skype = POWER TOOL!

I have used, purchased and been following this product for a few years now. Check it out @ http://www.skylook.biz/. Microsoft just purchased Skype so the integration is now officially married! Excellent work Mr. Jeremy Hague

—dsqmoore001

Outlook Thread Compressor

Outlook 2010 "Cleanup" for older Outlook versions (really old and installation is archaic).

—Guest JS

Outlook Year View

Having a year planner style view in MS Outlook is great!

—Guest Bob

Free Email Encryption Add-In for Outlook

The free Send.™ Secure Add-In for Microsoft Outlook makes it easy and convenient to send and receive encrypted emails in Outlook. Your recipients can view your messages with no software required beyond their favorite web browser.

—Guest tnguyen

ReliefJet Essentials for Outlook

A suite of many many useful tools. Must-have for any Microsoft Outlook user. I personally use its free Outlook Tweaker which is just awesome.

—Guest Alex

RedCritter and Xobni

I have both RedCritter and Xobni on my computer today.

—Guest Jerry

Attachmetric is really useful for…

Attachmetric is really useful for tracking who is reading your attachments and weblinks in your emails.

—Guest Paul Das

MessageViewer Pro

Files ending in .msg can generally only be opened with Outlook, but there is another program that opens them: Encryptomatic's MessageViewer Pro.

—Guest calypso

Attachments Processor

I use MAPILab's Attachments Processor to strip attachments out of my Outlook email, and file them separately on my disk. I receive and send tons of emails with the same attachments, so this is necessary to keep the PST file manageable (somewhere in 200 - 500 MB range). It's flexible and provides numerous options.

—Guest SkipTML

Oasys Mail Manager and Lookeen

Oasys Mail Manager. This is a filing system for e-mail. You do not save your e-mail in Outlook but file it with the endings .msg; Lookeen, my favorite search program. It is fast and detailed.

—Guest calypso

Send Personally

Send Personally… the most useful addon for me. I've been using it for years without a failure. Oddly, it never needs upgrading and I suppose that's because it's just fine the way it is. No commercial intended here, but it's from Mapilab.

—Guest refugeefromreason