Outlook Answer Book, The: Useful Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Microsoft Outlook® 2003

Miscellaneous

6.35. How Do I Generate a Task from a Note?

Sometimes you'll quickly create a note, such as a grocery shopping list or a few reminders of what you want to cover in a meeting, and then later decide that the note should become a task. You can easily accomplish this by dragging the note from its folder and dropping it onto the Tasks button on the Navigation Pane. Outlook then automatically creates a new task based on the note. The title of the note becomes the subject of the task, and the task is automatically assigned the same categories that the note was assigned.

6.36. Can I Create Outlook Notes from Other Applications?

Some of the main uses of notes are to jot down ideas, questions, and general items that you would otherwise save ...