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Giovanni
Microsoft
MicrosoftWhat do you think about RSVP in Outlook?
Hello Calendar Community,
RSVP (responding to meeting invitations) is an area with lots of opportunity for improvements in Outlook Calendar. I’m reaching out to gather your feedback on RSVP. ...
I came across a TechCommunity post that you may be interested in. The meeting organizer created a rule to move accepted and tentative responses to a folder, which declutters her inbox. She wants only declined responses to arrive in her inbox to prompt potential action on the declined responses.
Hmmm. This functionality could be helpful to many. Having "more" flexibility to choose how RSVP responses are handled would be nice.
Kudos to KristyKairos for this idea.
My Favourite Outlook Rule - Microsoft Community Hub
#traccreations4e 7/17/2024
Thanks for tagging me, Teresa.
I feel very strongly about the current RSVP UX in Outlook. It's a huge pet peeve of mine.
It makes me so mad that rsvp's show up when I'm looking for legit emails and they are carded in such a weird way within Outlook, I somehow constantly end up clicking through these when there is 0 information. [If there's 0 information to be gained, should clicking even be an option?]
This seems to be such a basic feature, it seems to subject to heavy overthinking.
G-Suite's way of managing:
- scheduling cross-functional meetings and intuitively being able to book them (and if I have all their calendars selected, google automatically adds them to the invite, saving me a ton of redundant work I need to do in Outlook Calendar)
- no weird UI of rsvps in the inbox ... it's just a unique subject line, if any message is displayed, you immediately see the preview of that
That's it. Because it's so easy to identify the standard invites, it's also very easy to filter / automate them in any way possible. It took me substantially longer to find the right online resource to help me come up with my own rule. [actually through another help forum that I don't remember off the top of my hat]
Sorry, my rant is over 🙂 Outlook has many strengths, but the calendar scheduling + rsvp's is bananas.
Happy to be available for questions / user interviews / show how easy and uncomplicated it is with Google if that's of interest.
I feel very strongly about the current RSVP UX in Outlook. It's a huge pet peeve of mine.
It makes me so mad that rsvp's show up when I'm looking for legit emails and they are carded in such a weird way within Outlook, I somehow constantly end up clicking through these when there is 0 information. [If there's 0 information to be gained, should clicking even be an option?]
This seems to be such a basic feature, it seems to subject to heavy overthinking.
G-Suite's way of managing:
- scheduling cross-functional meetings and intuitively being able to book them (and if I have all their calendars selected, google automatically adds them to the invite, saving me a ton of redundant work I need to do in Outlook Calendar)
- no weird UI of rsvps in the inbox ... it's just a unique subject line, if any message is displayed, you immediately see the preview of that
That's it. Because it's so easy to identify the standard invites, it's also very easy to filter / automate them in any way possible. It took me substantially longer to find the right online resource to help me come up with my own rule. [actually through another help forum that I don't remember off the top of my hat]
Sorry, my rant is over 🙂 Outlook has many strengths, but the calendar scheduling + rsvp's is bananas.
Happy to be available for questions / user interviews / show how easy and uncomplicated it is with Google if that's of interest.
