How many messages are sitting in your Inbox? You're kidding! What are you doing reading this tip when you should be following up with some of the more important ones? Oh, you don't know which ones are important. Well, I bet you gauged an e-mail's importance when it first arrived. In Microsoft Outlook, right-click on a message and select the 'Flag for Follow Up' option. Now, select one of the following: Call, Do not Forward, Follow up, For Your Information, Forward, No Response Necessary, Read, Reply, Reply to All, or Review. Ya know, whatever the situation calls for. While you're at it, better give yourself a due date, too. Outlook will then remind you that you need to play less Solitaire and reply to more e-mail messages. Not literally, of course. You can also set flags for your outgoing messages, too.