Clutter was not well received because users were not given a way to fully remove it. It started by introducing to Office 365 subscribers a feature called Clutter, an automated filtering tool that put emails you were unlikely to open (based on your past behavior) into a separate folder.

To be fair, Microsoft has been trying to address the overwhelmed-inbox condition for the last couple of years. This article focuses on making inbox management much more productive. I've decided to tackle Outlook's annoyances head on. When I think about why I hate the software, it comes down to a set of frustrations around key areas like a lack of focus on inbox management, a tacked-on search facility with a terrible user interface, and the absence of two-way syncing with non-Microsoft sources of calendars and contacts. But in the Windows environment, there's no better email, calendaring and contacts package than Microsoft Outlook 2016. In fact, if the Clutter folder is empty when a mailbox switches to the Focused Inbox, the folder is removed automatically.'įor Q2, that does sound like transition or partial rollout issue.The truth is, I hate Outlook. After you begin using the Focused Inbox, the Clutter folder loses its status as a system folder, which means that you can delete all items from the folder and then remove it. ' Items that are in the Clutter folder remain there until you remove them. Any messages already in your Clutter folder will remain there until you decide to delete or move them.' The same algorithm that moved items to the Clutter folder now powers Focused Inbox, meaning that any emails that were set to move to Clutter will now be moved to Other. Instead, email will be split between the Focused and Other tabs in your inbox.

'After switching, you'll no longer receive less important email in the Clutter folder. You may have seen this already but for Q1: With the rollout to standard users completed by early to mid-Jan 2017. Originally the rollout to FR users should have been completed by around next week. There has been a discussion going on here waiting for its arrival.

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