Natural Science Forum / Physics / General Physics / July 2009

I wrote the following in response to a post by Sam Wormley,
but as the information may be of value to more folks,
I am posting using a more appropriate "Subject" header.

"Sam Wormley" asked:
" How do you like your Microsoft Outlook Express, Potter?"

I responded:
Outlook Express is a very powerful and useful program.

1. As text and graphics can be copied and dragged
to an Outlook Express "post" and saved into "Folders"
that you can create, it is great for accumulating, editing,
and assembling information and creating PDF  files,

and you can also save "posts" as TXT files
for reading them with your portable devices.

2. Outlook Express is great for maintaining "posts"
of URL's. When I see a Web Page with lot of
interesting URL's, I copy the page to a new
or existing "post" and save it to my "URL" Outlook Express folder.

New "posts' are saved to the "drafts" folder,
and you can immediately click on URLs of saved posts
to go to the web pages in your browser,
and you can drag the post to an old folder or a new folder that
holds "posts" in that category. (Shareware, chemistry, physics, etc.)

3. I have created a number of Outlook Express folders such
as interesting, informative, stupid, interesting poster, etc.
and I drag posts to these folders.

4. Outlook Express is great, not only for searching on posts,
but you can copy or drag all kinds of to "posts",
save them to various "folders" you have created,
and use the "find" feature to quickly find the information you need.
This is great for online work.

5. I use Outlook Express to accumulate, edit and save
OFFLINE information to PDF files.

I mark and drag data from news and web articles,
onto new and old posts,
and save the posts, not to SEND,
but to a folder that indicates the information category.

and when I have accumulated a set of posts,
I use ABC Amber Outlook Express to create a PDF
that contains all of the information.

For example, if I wanted to create a data file on Obama,
I'd surf the net, drag the information I liked to
a "post" or append it to a "post",
and after I got all the information I wanted,
into a number of "posts"
I use ABC Amber Outlook Express to create a PDF file
that contains all of the information.

( There may be other programs that assemble a set of
"posts" into a single PDF file.)