25
Jan
07

Tutorial: Customising Outlook 2007 to be a better RSS Reader

One of the options I overlooked in Outlook 2007 was to view the unread RSS feeds/posts. Intuitive a I am :-) I tried every option on the RSS folder, I discovered and learned much, but no luck in viewing unread feeds/posts.  gave up and switched to another reader until I had a little chat with a former colleague, he pointed me the right way.

You have to define a new search folder, the tutorial can be found here.

Interesting things in this post, I learned a lot, at the moment I don’t have an exchange connection, just a POP3 accoun

What I learned:

  • Flagging and marking of posts so I can manage important posts just like emails in task lists etc.
  • Integrated desktop/Vista search so I can find posts and emails alike
  • Ctrl+F to just forward the whole post to a colleague who would be interested in the post
  • Outlook Web Access - although it won’t actively refresh the feed from the server, I can still read my posts remotely
  • Synchronise to my Windows Mobile 5 PDA phone - it is just an outlook folder
  • Exchange Server - the posts are stored on the server, so they go with me
  • … Outlook is a powerful customisable tool so I expect to be able to use RSS data in increasingly useful ways

Last thing I learned :-):

Don’t underestimate the power of Outlook 2007, and the combination of Outlook 2007 and Exchange!


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