Just like the ‘Flag for Me’, the Flag To text works best if it’s specific rather than one of Microsoft’s bland defaults. To send a reminder with your email, go to the same Home | Tags | Follow Up | Add Reminder and look at the bottom ‘Flag for Recipients’ section. Then click the ‘Add Reminder’ option which opens the Custom dialog. Modern Outlook has spilt reminders between the sender (aka ‘Me’) and reminders for the recipient.įrom an open email message go to Home | Tags | Follow Up Because of those troubles, some ‘old hands’ with Outlook are still wary of email reminders. Here’s a personal reminder that you do not want the email receiver to see.Įmbarrassments like that did happen. Setting reminders for outgoing emails was a problem in early versions of Outlook because the reminder was always sent with the message, which wasn’t always a good idea. Finally, we’ll explain how the reminder is included in your email. We’ll look at how that reminder will appear to the recipient, if at all. In this article, we’ll show how to send a reminder with your email. Ideally, this means the recipient will get a ‘pop-up’ reminder to do whatever you’re talking about in the email itself. Outlook for Windows (not Mac) can send an automatic reminder with an email. Thanks for joining us! You'll get a welcome message in a few moments.
