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Neo Find $15 Caelo Software www.caelo.com CPUs: 4 If Outlook (and not Outlook Express) has been your main email program for the last few years, then you’ve likely encountered a problem: finding your past emails. We know there are tools such as Google Desktop Search and Windows Search 4.0 that can search through your mail, but actually finding what you want is surprisingly hit-or-miss in many situations. In these cases, Neo Find just might be the answer. By now, most Outlook users know about folders, and so they usually take important messages from the Inbox and drag them to folders relating to a project. And there are usually layers of folders within folders. Plus, there might be an Inbox with thousands of messages too good to delete but too generic to put into a Folder. Now the finding problems start: Outlook searches by selected Folder (such as Inbox) by default, but when you click through to search All Mail Items, the results are relatively unfiltered, unsorted, and unthreaded. Neo Find, which is a supplemental program to Outlook that actually automatically starts and minimizes when Outlook runs, sets out to solve this problem. It maintains its own live index of all of your mail in all of your Outlook folders and then automatically groups messages by Correspondent. Click Karl Simons, and all your messages from Karl appear, regardless of what folders you’ve put Karl’s messages into over the years. You can then easily perform further searches or filtering on Karl’s messages until you find what you need. The key is that these groupings, searches, and filters happen instantly (as quickly as you can think and click), speedily locating exactly what you need. You can reply to and forward messages directly from Neo Find, which causes the corresponding window to appear from Outlook, populated as you would expect to send your message. In many ways, Neo Find adds the excellent search and filtering functionality that Opera’s underrated M1 mail module has had for years yet allows you to keep using Outlook. It’s the best of all worlds for a very reasonable price. by Warren Ernst
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