How to annotate or add notes to email in Outlook with an editable user-defined field

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Wouldn't it be nice to have a little "notes" field in your Outlook Inbox? For example I frequently need to recall what the current status is or what the next step is on a task that is being referenced from some email. Often these are short-term notes, not the kind of thing that deserve creating a full separate "task" for.

After scratching around here and there with custom forms, follow up flags and the like, I finally found this post about the "Allow In-Cell Editing" setting. This makes your whole inbox editable, which I don't really want, but it also makes any new fields you've added through the Field Chooser editable, which is perfect.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-outlook/adding-editable-user-defined-field-to-inbox/c8857b47-7b04-4f72-8ac6-dc80dd853a3e

What I did:
1) Goto View > Current View > Customize Current View > Other Settings and enable the "Allow In-Cell Editing" check box.
2) Goto View > Current View > Customize Current View > Fields and add a new text field named "My Notes".

Voila.

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