Volume 30 Issue 12

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New Outlook: View Calendar and Tasks in Mail
Recover Deleted Appointments in New Outlook
OneNote me@onenote Retired

New Outlook: View Calendar and Tasks in Mail

A user tried the new Outlook and complained about missing Tasks and Calendar in the sidebars while viewing Mail. In classic Outlook, the To-do bar was enabled in his mail folders and he wanted it in new Outlook.

New Outlook doesn't have a To-do bar like classic Outlook, with Calendar and Tasks visible in the same pane. Instead, it has My Day which displays the Calendar or Tasks, switchable using tabs at the top of the pane. When enabled, My Day displays in Mail, Calendar and People.

To enable My Day, click the small “appointment with check mark” icon in the title bar, next to the notifications button (bell icon). To close it, click the button again or click the X in the upper right of the pane.

You can drag mail to the pane to create an appointment or task. Hover over the pane to open two ‘add as a’ boxes, one for tasks and one for events, then drop the message on the desired box. When the calendar tab is selected, tasks will be a smaller box at the top of the pane, events will be a large pane. The reverse is true if the Tasks tab is selected, with the “Add as a task” box large and “Add as an event” a small box at the top.

If you are using classic Outlook and want to use the To-do bar, right click on the navigation buttons for Calendar or Tasks and choose “Dock the Peek”. To close click the X in the right corner of the section of the To-do bar that you want to close. If you enabled the To-do bar in Mail folders, you won't see it in Calendar or People (but can dock the peeks you want in either module.)

Recover Deleted Appointments in New Outlook

A user accidently deleted some appointments and when he when into the Deleted items folder in new Outlook, he couldn't find the appointments. He needed to switch to classic Outlook to recover the events. He wondered where new Outlook hides the deleted calendar items and if it was a bug or intentional.

After playing around with deleted events, I discovered I could see them using a category view (the events were the None category if no category was assigned). I also discovered searching for the event subjects does not find them if using a view that does not display the events.

The user tested it then discovered that using “Show each message separately” also allows appointments to display. Apparently the bug is in Group into Conversations setting (By Category doesn't group by conversation.)

Note that the Deleted Items use the created date as the Received date for calendar items and contacts, so you’ll need to scroll to find the items if you need to recover events with varying subjects.

For what it's worth, if you use classic Outlook, you can add the modified date field to the view and group by item type, making it easier to find deleted appointments, contacts, or tasks.

OneNote me@onenote Retired

Microsoft OneNote retired the "me@onenote" feature on March 26, 2025, due to low usage. Anyone who was still using it will need to use "Send to OneNote" feature in Outlook instead. Look for Send to OneNote under the More apps button in new Outlook. If it is not installed in your Microsoft account mailbox, click Add apps button to find and install it.

Currently, Send to OneNote is only available in new Outlook for Microsoft accounts. (A COM add-in in classic Outlook works for non-Microsoft accounts.)

Honestly, one of the reasons for low usage was how buggy it was. Messages sent to the address often took hours to arrive, if at all. Send to OneNote is immediate.

Also, support for the OneNote for Windows 10 legacy app ends October 14, 2025. Users still using the legacy app should migrate to OneNote on Windows (OneNote M365). This is available in current versions of Office or from the Microsoft store.

OneNote can be downloaded here: https://www.onenote.com/Download