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PC Today Software Reviews August 2004 • Vol.2 Issue 8 Page(s) 97 in print issue |
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Caelo Software NEO 3.0 |
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Jump to first occurrence of: [NELSON] [EMAIL] [ORGANIZER]
Enter NEO (Nelson Email Organizer) 3.0, a Microsoft Outlook add-on that takes the heavy lifting out of email. NEO organizes new and old messages and makes it simple to search and track email.  Come Hither Features NEO lets you easily search for and retrieve any email message, as well as manage your incoming email more effectively. While plain-old Outlook just plops new messages in your inbox for you to sort manually, NEO automatically sorts messages using specific criteria and copies messages to as many categories as necessary. For example, a friend sent us a message with a WordPerfect attachment. NEO simultaneously filed the message in the Today folder under the Date tab, in the WPD folder under the Attachment tab, and in our friend's folder under the Correspondent tab. You will notice new email messages first in the Active Mail folder, which is a nice inbox replacement. Active Mail keeps all new messages in a single folder until you decide whether to reply to them, remove them, or pass them on. Unlike Outlook, after you reply, remove, or forward a message, you don't need to file it away yourself. NEO handles this task. Tabs along the top of the NEO interface let you quickly select categories for viewing your messages. Using the Correspondents tab, for example, you can search for messages based on who sent the message or to whom you addressed the message. If a message is sent to multiple recipients, NEO will place the message in the folder for each recipient. You will find subscriptions to your various mailing lists under the Bulk Mail tab. And you can customize the Hot tab to hold folders that contain messages from or addressed to important or frequent correspondents or subscriptions. Outlook Maneuvers Outlook offers more than an email client, including a Calendar, Journal, and Task Manager. Although you can access these other features easily using NEO, it is an email-centric tool, designed to enhance Outlook's messaging functionality only. NEO opens in a separate window, and its simple design and interface make it easy to maneuver. From within NEO you can watch email arrive in the Active Mail window or compose new messages as if you were actually using Outlook. You can access your Calendar, Tasks, and other Outlook folders from a central menu. Minor Flaws NEO doesn't work with Outlook Express, but then, neither does much else. Caelo Software only offers online support, so although you won't waste precious minutes on hold, you won't get an immediate answer to your troubles either. It also takes some time initially to set up NEO to meet your needs. You may have to use the program for a while. Learn to use NEO and you'll not only stay on top of your inbox, you'll discover email is more useful than you could have imagined.  by Anne Steyer Phelps
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