NEO Pro: Free Microsoft Outlook message store organizer

Nelson E-mail Organizer (NEO) is a tool for Microsoft Outlook designed to circumvent a lot of this hassle.

Instead of providing you with a search system for your e-mail -- the way a product like Lookout for Outlook does -- it creates searches that are more like virtual views of your e-mail.

Each view filters your mail by certain preprogrammed criteria, which can work like search terms but are more flexible. The same e-mail can appear in multiple views if it needs to, without having redundant copies of the e-mail stored in different folders.

When installed, NEO adds a row of tabs to Microsoft Outlook's interface, each of which consists of a preprogrammed view that can be customized as needed. The existing message store gets pre-categorized, and future messages are categorized as they come in.

The underlying folder organization and behavior, including existing Microsoft Outlook folder rules, does not change -- you can always remove NEO's views and see your folders as they actuall

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NEO also performs per-word indexing of e-mails, so they can be found through traditional keyword searches, or with keywords plus other criteria.

The tool comes in two flavors: a free version for personal use and a pro edition ($69.95 per seat; volume discounts available). The pro edition contains a number of additional features, such as the ability to tear off a view window and dock it elsewhere onscreen, and the ability to create custom search views. The free version only lets you use the pre-created views, but it's still quite useful.

About the author: Serdar Yegulalp is editor of the Windows Power Users Newsletter.

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