

When you are using Outlook 2013, 2016 or Outlook 2019 and have your message header minimized, then you can’t edit the message subject until you expand the message header by pressing the little down arrow in the bottom right corner of the message header. To do this, double click the message, to open it in its own window, and directly type your note in the Subject field.

Method 2: Modify the subjectĪnother method to add a short note is to modify the message’s subject. You can set the Start date and Due date to None. The note that you typed will be displayed in an Infobar directly above the message itself when you open it in the Reading Pane or in its own window. In order to type the text, right click on the Flag column in Outlook and choose Custom… or press CTRL+SHIFT+G to open the same dialog box. This method is great for if you only need to add a short note. By default the text is set to “Follow up” and there is a list to choose some other pre-defined text, but you can type any text you want as well. When you flag an item, you are free to choose the text for the flag. Which method works best for you depends mainly on how long your note is going to be and how much formatting you’ll be needing.Īside from several methods within Outlook itself, you can also rely on other applications or add-ins which can integrate with Outlook. There are several ways you can do this in Outlook. Is there any good way to add a note to a message that I received? I sometimes receive an email message that I don’t need to respond to directly but do have some thoughts about which I want to write down and refer to it later.
