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DailyLit Tip #2: Using Folders and Labels in Outlook

August 20th, 2008 Maggie

Here’s our second DailyLit Tip to make reading your installments even easier. (Missed #1? Read it here.)

Since your DailyLit installments come into your regular email inbox, they can get mixed up and sometimes lost with all of your other messages. It can be difficult to find your DailyLit installments if, say, you were busy when one day’s installment is delivered, or if you like to refer to the previous day’s reading before opening the newest installment. And, as I mentioned in our first tip, we like our DailyLit to be easy. So, one easy way to manage your subscriptions is to copy all of your installments into a folder. You can create a folder for all of your emails from DailyLit, or even a separate folder for each book.

But it can get even easier than that. In Outlook and other similar email clients, you can set up a rule so that incoming messages from DailyLit are automatically directed to your DailyLit or book folder. Here’s how to set it up:

• In Outlook go to “File,” then “New,” then “Folder,” and create a new “Personal Folder” for your DailyLit emails.
• Then, go to “Tools” and “Rules and Alerts” and create a new rule.
• Select “Move messages from a person to a folder” (or “Move messages with specific words in the subject to a folder” for individual book folders), and click “Next.”
• Make sure the conditions you want are selected, then click on the words “People or distribution list” to fill in “books@dailylit.com” (or “specific words” to fill in the book title for individual book folders) and click on “Specified” to add your DailyLit folder. Click “next.”
• You’ll see more options for your DailyLit emails (like marking them all as “of importance”). Choose your options, then click “next.”
• Here you can select different exceptions to your rule. Select any exceptions you’d like to apply, and, again, click “next.”
• Finally, name your rule and activate it on the final screen, and you’re good to go—all of your DailyLit emails will go to one, easy-to-manage place.

If you have any trouble getting your folders set up email us at support [at] dailylit [dot] com. We’re happy to help.

Stay tuned for tip #3!

Have a tip of your own? Send it to support [at] dailylit [dot] com.

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