Outlook® 2013 Absolute Beginner’s Guide

11. Notes and Journal

In This Chapter

• Using Outlook’s Notes module

• The Journal module

Outlook is loaded with features, some of which are complicated and confusing, but one of the most basic features is Outlook’s Notes. It doesn’t do much, but it’s handy if you need to securely store bits of text and notes.

Notes resemble sticky notes, and you can use them to replace the paper version, but they lack a lot of functionality you would expect to find in onscreen sticky notes. That’s not to say they aren’t useful—they just don’t have the features many people expect from electronic sticky notes.

If you used a previous version of Outlook and are familiar with either Notes or Journal, you’ll notice a number of changes. Microsoft has removed some ...