If you aren’t familiar with this excellent tool, it is a service that allows you to be notified of certain events or emails based on rules that you have defined. For instance, if you only want to see emails from a certain person or even certain domain, you can set up a rule where AwayFind will notify you when you receive messages from the filtered user or domain. Today, AwayFind is adding even more functionality to the platform; multiple calendar alert support and the beta release of their new Outlook plugin.
Multiple Calendar Support
Even if bob@me.com isn’t on your filter email list, you will still get the notification. This is a great feature for people that have a lot of meetings and want to be notified of last minute changes. But, before today you could only have setup one calendar to track. Now AwayFind lets you track multiple calendars from multiple email addresses so you can be notified of appointments from all facets of your life.
Beta Outlook Plugin
All that aside, AwayFind found that many corporate customers that were using Outlook would like some extra functionality, so starting today you can get an Outlook plugin (currently in beta) that will integrate nicely with your AwayFind account. Instead of keeping your Outlook open all day long and being beaten to death with alerts, you can “follow” a message with the new plugin and setup alerts to be delivered to you via SMS, phone call, iPhone or Android app, etc. You can even set a time that you would like to “follow” this sender (for the next day, week, month, or lifetime). This is a super fast way to be reminded of something important without having to be tied to your inbox all day long. Definitely something that I will be using at work! The beta Outlook plugin will work with Outlook 2003-2010. We don’t usually do too many product announcements here at Lifehack, but like I said before, AwayFind is one of our favorites. If you want to give AwayFind a try head on over to their site and start a free trial. If you get a lot of email, AwayFind is a game changer.
