best kept Outlook secret

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The video provides a high-utility, 'hidden' feature for a widely used professional tool, making it highly shareable for office workers looking to improve productivity.

Summary

The creator demonstrates a productivity hack for Microsoft Outlook where users can drag an email directly onto their calendar to create a scheduled task. This action automatically creates an event and attaches the original email for easy reference.

Structure

1Identify the target audience
2State the problem of missed tasks
3Demonstrate the drag-and-drop feature
4Show the resulting calendar event
5Provide a call to action

Product placement

Microsoft Outlook is the primary subject of the tutorial, shown in a screen recording.

Call to action

Follow for more Outlook and Gmail tips and tricks!

Original caption

Replying to @katiestokss stop letting important emails get buried and forgotten 👀 drag it straight to your outlook calendar and it creates an event with the full email attached never miss a follow-up again ✨ #outlook #productivity #corporategirl #emailhacks #worklife

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best kept Outlook secret If you work best by time blocking your day, this is the tip for you. This is for Outlook users, and this is also for people who feel like things slip through the cracks. Anytime you get an email with a task and you wanna set up time to work on it, simply just drag it over to your calendar automatically creates this calendar invite so you can choose a day and a time to work on it. And it also attaches the email so it's easy to find later on. That is how you never miss a follow-up again. Follow for more Outlook and Gmail tips and tricks!

Transcript

If you work best by time blocking your day, this is the tip for you. This is for Outlook users, and this is also for people who feel like things slip through the cracks. Anytime you get an email with a task and you wanna set up time to work on it, simply just drag it over to your calendar. It automatically creates this calendar invite so you can choose a day and a time to work on it, and it also attaches the email so it's easy to find later on. That is how you never miss a follow-up again. Follow for more Outlook and Gmail tips and tricks!