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Feature Request: Add "Recent Activity Feed" combining Sent & Received emails
You can more or less already do this with Search Folders and Conditional Formatting.
Granted, in New Outlook the filter to only display emails from today, yesterday, or a specific date range is sadly still missing, but that will come eventually.
An example with a similar concept for Classic Outlook can be found here; Today's Unread Mail folder - Robert 365
You can combine that with Conditional Formatting to distinguish emails you've sent and emails that you've received in case you do not want to group by folder; Color Code your Emails, Calendar or Tasks automatically with Conditional Formatting - Robert 365
Within New Outlook, Conditional Formatting can be found as a separate sub section of Mail in the Settings page.
Hi Robert,
Thank you so much for your insightful response and for sharing those helpful workarounds using Search Folders and Conditional Formatting.
As you correctly noted, since I am using the New Outlook (Web/OWA) interface, the lack of robust Search Folders and specific date-range filtering makes it a bit challenging to manage this natively right now.
While conditional formatting helps with color-coding, my core idea behind the "Recent Activity Feed" concept is to completely eliminate the need to switch between folders. For high-volume professionals dealing with daily bulk BCC communications, having a unified, chronological timeline directly in the main Inbox view would save immense time and improve workflow focus.
I really appreciate your validation that this type of unified filter is currently missing in the New Outlook, and I truly hope the Microsoft Product Team considers bringing such modern, timeline-based feed features in future updates!
Thanks again for your expertise and links!
