As an architect, our legal advisors and insurance carriers require us to document via a paper file all correspondence pertaining to a specific project. We do this is to avoid any potential issue of handing our computer and all electronic files in the event of any litigation. By handing over our computers and hard drives, this allows attorneys to go diving into all files that they might wish to do. This filing electronically and then filing via a paper file takes a lot of time. Each project file must also have all documents in chronological order so that any reader can see a comment and then a response. The only way I can make Outlook file chronologically is to do; Date (year, month, day), Time (24-hour clock), Initials of Person Sending_Initials of Person receiving, and the brief subject concerning the email. Each document looks something like this; 20200413 1413 DH_AB Memo_on_foundations.msg. This takes a lot of time to format, file in the project correspondence file, and then print, and file in the project correspondence paper file. Can Microsoft Outlook come up with an app that would make all of this filing a lot faster?
If formatted properly, one could easily file in the computer's hard drive or One Drive. If one could print an entire Project/Correspondence file merely by highlighting and printing all at once, then one would avoid the steps of constantly printing each email and filing them every day, plus one would be assured that the electronic file matches the paper file. If an architect says that it is his/her practice to make such a paper file of correspondence, then the attorneys have to accept the paper file and cannot ask and get one's computer and go on a fishing expedition.