Productivity - Better Outlook inbox - Grouping mails by subject

Following the series of productivity tips (checked already the Productivity - Better Outlook inbox - Highlight mails with colours post?) I'd like to share one very quick tip to save time when scanning through inbox. It's grouping mails as conversations. For people already using it, this article might look a bit silly, but the amount of people not using it compelled me to write an article on it. Then, there'll be no excuses for not using it.

To the point: by using mails as conversations, all mails within the same subject will grouped. This is extremely useful if you want to quickly look over a conversation, reading related mails or simply move all the mails within a conversation into another folder. All at once.

This is how mails will look like when grouped. Numbers show how many unread items are grouped. Grouped items are identified by the > arrow on the left.

To expand the group, you click on the arrow on the left with mouse or left arrow on keyboard. It will expand all mails within the group. Look how many mails were grouped in one of these examples!

Definitely useful for places that are strongly dependent on mails. As we can't get rid of places using mails like this, let's at least make this process less painful.

To activate the conversation mode, you go to the "view" menu in Outlook and check the "Show as Conversations" option.

After this, explore the Settings for Conversations, such as Classic Indented view, where every sender appear as a new entry on the list or the Current Indented view, where "parallel" mails are grouped as sub conversations.

Were you using it already? Any preferred Conversation Settings you'd like to share? Leave a comment!