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Many of the tools listed on this page also work with Microsoft Outlook's Calendar and Contacts, as well as with Tasks.

 

 

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4Team Easy2Add for Microsoft Outlook

Easy2Add software is a free and fastest way to create Microsoft Outlook events and other items. Create calendar events even when the Microsoft Outlook is closed. Quickly create new events, tasks (to-do), contacts, notes from plain English in your Outlook Calendar (appointments, meetings, all day events), Tasks, Contacts and Notes folders even Outlook is not running. Adding Events feature is free, other features are available in registered version.

4Team Email2Task

Create task from email message. Convert email to appointment in Outlook. Email2Task is an easy to use add-in for Outlook allowing you to turn email to calendar events, convert email messages into Outlook tasks and attach email. Move emails to predefined folder in one click. Use Email2Task form to modify the task or appointment details quickly. Easily organize your information in Microsoft Outlook with E2T time saving software add-in.

4Team ShareO for Outlook

Synchronize and share Outlook folders on multiple PCs without a server. Microsoft Outlook add-in for synchronizing and sharing Outlook folders, PST files, email, calendar, tasks and notes. This is a time saving and cost-effective solution for sharing Microsoft Outlook between multiple users. Share Microsoft Outlook Public or Personal folders, Windows documents and files with others. It is an easy and effective solution for remote companies and groups. Secure Outlook sharing and synchronization.

Anti-Dupe for Microsoft Outlook

Remove unwanted Outlook duplicate records with Anti-Dupe for Microsoft Outlook add-in utility. Anti-Dupe for Outlook scans and deletes duplicate Outlook duplicate appointments, contacts, emails and tasks based on pre-determined criterion set by Anti-Dupe. Trial version available.

Apps4Pro Planner Outlook Web Add-in

Apps4.Pro Planner Outlook Web acts as a central hub to manage all your tasks from different task management systems such as Microsoft Planner, SharePoint, Outlook Tasks and extends Apps4.Pro Planner capabilities to Web, OWA, Mac and Mobile.

Copy2Contact

Converts text in virtually any Windows application into Outlook contacts, appointments, tasks, or notes. Copies text to create an entire contact or appointment at once, without retyping. It works from email signatures, web search results, documents, resumes, and any other source of contact or event information.

Data Publisher for Outlook & SharePoint

Data Publisher add-in provides a means to bring your Outlook contents such as mails, appointments, tasks or contacts to SharePoint lists, where these can be shared with other users. This process can be performed manually, or automatically and is achieved without using any scripts or programming, with complete seamless experience to the users. In other words, Data Publisher extends your Microsoft Outlook to effectively act as a content provider for your enterprise SharePoint repository. It can be adapted to feed data to SharePoint lists for various purposes, such as for issue tracking, timesheets, projects or contact managements.

Duplicate Eliminator Bundle

Either delete duplicate Outlook items or move them to a separate folder. Includes all 8 of the duplicate eliminator add-ins from Sperry Software for a single low price. You get: Duplicate Email Eliminator Add-In, Duplicate Email Eliminator Across Folders Add-In, Duplicate Contacts Eliminator Add-In, Duplicate Appointments Eliminator Add-In, Duplicate Tasks Eliminator Add-In, Duplicate Notes Eliminator Add-In, Duplicate Journals Eliminator Add-In, Duplicate Posts Eliminator Add-In.

eeminders for Outlook

eeminders gives you an uncluttered inbox that shows you what you need to work on, in the order that you want to work on them. Defer/snooze emails out of your inbox and have them magically appear back when you actually need them. Get email reminders to follow-up on important emails right in your inbox. Get reminders for non-email actions in your Inbox. Prioritize or schedule your emails in the order that you need to work on them and more... Supports Outlook 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 (32bit and 64bit). Free 30 day trial available

Extended Reminders

Outlook COM add-in that enables you to receive reminders from any mail, calendar, contacts, or tasks folder in your default information store (Exchange mailbox or Personal Folders file) except the Outbox.

FocusMe for Outlook

Ceptara's FocusMe application is a Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2013 & 2016 add-in designed to help you and your team achieve greater focus. It helps you get more organized via features including 5D email processing, organizing your mail, tasks, appointments, documents, and notes by Project, task planning support, and time, travel and hourly billing tracking. It includes planning tools such as Gantt charts and mindmaps, task focused free/busy scheduler and many more The tool facilitates team collaboration via e-mail, FocusSync and SharePoint.

Folder HelpDesk for Outlook

Cooperate on incident management inside Outlook. Folder HelpDesk may be installed in any Outlook folder. Manual or automatic conversion of e-mails into tickets with formatting, images and attached files included. Manual conversion also of Outlook Tasks and Appointments. E-mail history, FAQ answers. Statistics tool. Knowledge base. Supports Win 2003-8, Office 2003, 2007, 2010 (32-bit) and 365 and SQL Server, SQL Azure and Access databases.

Issue Tracker for Outlook & SharePoint

An incident ticket management groupware add-in that leverages Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and SharePoint. Provide an easy way for support staffs to collect ticket data from emails, assign technicians and problem areas, set due date and other custom metadata. And then use this information to generate trouble tickets in one of the administrator defined SharePoint lists, where customer issues can be tracked and collaborated with other technicians and stakeholders to seek early resolution.

Kanban Task Manager

Drag and drop tasks between different phases of a project. Color code tasks by project or responsible and drag and drop them between phases using kanban board for Outlook or SharePoint. Also available in a personal kanban board for Outlook, Kanban Task Manager Single.

More Productive Tools for Outlook

More Productive Tools for Outlook is an innovative tool that expands your ability to get information into and out of Outlook quickly and effectively. More Productive Tools provides you with a vast array of capabilities to make your Outlook use more productive and efficient. Supports Outlook 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003 and 2007. Currently Free. Beta

MS Outlook ICS and VCF Adapter

MS Outlook ICS and VCF Adapter is a set of VBA scripts that enables a user to connect any Calendar folder (appointments or tasks) to a remote iCalendar server in read/write mode (i.e. it is possible to read from the remote calendar and it is possible to publish to the remote calendar. Free.

OLAP Statistics for Outlook

OLAP Statistics tool for Outlook helps you gain insight into your folder items and make new discoveries. It analyzes Outlook data in multi-dimensional view in grids, charts and graphs and supports pivoting, drill down/slice and dice and filtering. You can run analysis tool on individual Outlook or public folders. Specify any field as the measure using functions such as sum, count, distinct count, maximum, minimum etc, and use this against other fields to generate statistics. Save and share reports as PDF, JPEG, HTML or PNG formats.

Outlook Duplicates Remover

Removes duplicate items from Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes, and mail folders. Free.  

Power Toys for Outlook

Outlook plays a vital role in terms of office productivity in communication. However, there are some features missing, such as auto-BCC, Gmail Push Notification, and standardized import/export on contacts, calendars and tasks. Power Toys for Outlook is a collection of Outlook add-ins that provides these useful features. Auto BCC for sends blind carbon copy to recipients. Export Outlook Contacts to a single vCard (.vcf) and Excel. Export Outlook Appointments and Tasks to ICAL (.ics). GGNotify enables push notification from Google upon new e-mail arrival.

Reminder Manager

Reminder Manager provides reminders from any email, calendar, tasks or contacts folder in any open mail store. This allows you to set reminders on items in any folder in your mailbox or PST file, secondary PST files or public folders. Reminders can be emailed to any pager or email enabled communications device.

Reminders Assistant

With the Reminders Assistant plugin for Outlook you can set reminders for each and every Outlook folder including embedded ones.Reminders Assistant is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook. The Reminders Assistant component is one of the 18 addins included into the program MAPILab Toolbox.

TaskColors 4Outlook

TaskColors 4Outlook is an Outlook addon that lets you color your task lists with different colors.

Taskline

Taskline is a tool for managing your personal schedule in Outlook. It uses advanced algorithms to automatically schedule your task list into your Outlook calendar. Taskline 5 has been extensively re-engineered and now supports a full task hierarchy, with summary tasks.

TaskToCal

The Outlook add-in TaskToCal displays your Outlook tasks in your calendar automatically. Every time you create a new task then a new appointment will be created in your calendar. The notes and the state of your tasks are shown in the corresponding appointment. If you move your task-appointment in your calendar then the new time will be reflected in your task, too. Delete a task in your calendar and your task will be erased in the tasks folder.

Team TimeSheet for Outlook

An enterprise time reporting and billing management solution for teams of any size to work, plan, execute project related activities and timesheets within Microsoft Outlook, and publish to a central database. Leverage the familiar Outlook calendar and task interface to track time and expenses towards projects, clients or any entity your business requires. Generate attendance, payroll, cost estimates or billing reports for accouting purposes in Excel, PDF, XML or HTML. Support auditing of timesheets, offline usage, automatic alerts, custom fields and OLAP analysis. Ideal for organization and teams that charge by the hour.

Todoist

Access your to do list, turn emails into tasks, and collaborate on shared projects from within Outlook. Tasks are accessible from smartphones, tablet, web browser, email inbox, and more! Supports subtasks and subprojects. Free and Premium versions available.

WeekPlan

Week Plan has everything your employees and the team needs to plan, manage, collaborate and complete tasks on any number of projects. It implements the popular and result-driven OKR (Objective, Key Results) framework to plan and complete company objectives. Synchronize with Google Calendar and Outlook (two way synchronization). Pull from multiple calendars and to push from Week Plan into your chosen calendar.

Task Tools was last modified: November 8th, 2014 by Diane Poremsky

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About Diane Poremsky

A Microsoft Outlook Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1999, Diane is the author of several books, including Outlook 2013 Absolute Beginners Book. She also created video training CDs and online training classes for Microsoft Outlook. You can find her helping people online in Outlook Forums as well as in the Microsoft Answers and TechNet forums.

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