MaTags

Inspired by Launchy and Categorize Plus, this application is developed in Python for easy tagging (adding categories) Outlook messages.

It is tested under Window 7/10 and Office 365.

Packages:

• wxpython 4.0.0a3 pip install wxpython
• win32com pip install pywin32

Hotkeys:

• Alt+e, show dialog, extract tags
• Alt+a, activate dialog, without extracting tags
• Alt+r, refresh tags
• Esc, minimize the dialog to system tray
• Enter,
  • add the tags, e.g.: TagA, TagB, TagC TagA TagB TagC
  • set the tags with : in any place of the command (existing tags will be removed) e.g.: TagA TagB TagC: TagA: TagB TagC

Usages:

append tags:

• select all the messages to be tagged in Outlook,
• Alt+e to extract existing tags, input the tags (seperated with space or comma) and press Enter e.g. TagA, TagB, TagC or TagA TagB TagC. Please note existing tags will not be removed.

set tags:

• select all the messages to be tagged in Outlook,
• Alt+a to activate the Matags window, input the tags (seperated with space or comma) and add : in any place, press Enter e.g. TagA, TagB, TagC: or TagA: TagB TagC. Please note existing tags will be replaced with the new tags.

refresh tags

• select the messages including both the messages already tagged and the messages to be tagged (with Ctrl or Shift) in Outlook
• Alt+r, all the messages to be tagged will be refreshed with the existing tags

delete all tags

• input : and press Enter

delete part of tags

• Alt+e,
• remove/edit the tags and input :, press Enter

To make Windows EXE

• install py2exe
• run python setup.py