How do I add a note to an email using new outlook?

I don't want to have to go somewhere else (OneNote) to read the note! There should be the ability to just add a sticky note to the email that can quickly be expanded to view.

Catagories are too limited and restrictive. I may need to know additional info--that is NOT the same for every email, may need to add accounting info, may need to add a myriad of things that are too long for Catagories.

Surely in the age of AI, Microsoft and give us more and more useable options.

Well said, Lyn.

We need the ability to attach unique notes DIRECTLY to email messages.

Good day!

Thank you for the reply. Kindly try and follow these steps to enable add-ins in Outlook - Use add-ins in Outlook - Microsoft Support

Regards,

Fritz-Bald

Microsoft Community

Moderator

Thank you for your suggestion on the Categories option.

For the Use OneNote option, I am unable to follow your instructions. The "Send to OneNote option is not available to me in the apps section.
While email is in reading pane --> Click apps --> only apps available to select from are (adobe acrobat, Report suspicious, Viva insights) There is an "add apps" option, but searching "Send to OneNote" doesn't populate anything.
The only way I find "Send to OneNote" is in the manage your apps section at the bottom, but when I select to manage it doesn't give me the option to enable.

It is a custom app

If I click on the Icon, it gives me the option to "Open" and the following window opens. "Got it" doesn't do anything and "Try it" doesn't do anything.
After doing this, My apps selection in the reading pane of email sill doesn't have "Send to OneNote".

Good day!

Welcome to Microsoft Community. Thank you for sharing your concern with us today and we hope that all is well. Outlook doesn't have a built-in adding notes directly to emails feature at the moment. However, there are a few workarounds and alternative methods you can use to keep track of action items and add notes to your emails:

• Use OneNote: OneNote integrates well with Outlook and allows you to add detailed notes to your emails. You can send an email to OneNote by clicking on the "Send to OneNote" in the app section. To do this, open the email in your reading pane -->click on apps -->Select Send to OneNote. This will create a new page in OneNote with the email content, where you can add your notes and action items.
• Use Categories: You can use categories in the new Outlook to organize and leave note in your emails. Assign a category to an email to mark emails that require follow-up or action. To do this, right click on the email you want to add notes --> Select Categories -->New categories --> Write your note as the name of the categories -->Select color -->Save. **Note:**When you are adding your note to the categories, kindly avoid using special characters. Therefore, once you have done your task or apply your action on the email, you can right click on the email -->Categories -->clear all categories. This will help you to remove the assigned category.

Hope this helps!

Fritz-Bald

Microsoft Community

Moderator