This is little more than Clutter inverted so that it highlights mail you want to see instead of mail you probably don't want to see. More recently, Microsoft rolled out a feature called the Focused Inbox. Clutter was not well received because users were not given a way to fully remove it. It started by introducing to Office 365 subscribers a feature called Clutter, an automated filtering tool that put emails you were unlikely to open (based on your past behavior) into a separate folder. To be fair, Microsoft has been trying to address the overwhelmed-inbox condition for the last couple of years. This article focuses on making inbox management much more productive. I've decided to tackle Outlook's annoyances head on. When I think about why I hate the software, it comes down to a set of frustrations around key areas like a lack of focus on inbox management, a tacked-on search facility with a terrible user interface, and the absence of two-way syncing with non-Microsoft sources of calendars and contacts. But in the Windows environment, there's no better email, calendaring and contacts package than Microsoft Outlook 2016.
