LookOut for Outlook

So, I hate Outlook 2007's built-in Search.

Click in a folder, type into the Search box, and prepare to WAIT. Because leaving the folder halts & dumps the Search.

Stupid. Productivity killer. What was wrong with the old way with a dedicated Search window that could do it's thing while you did your thing?

So I went hunting for alternatives & found LookOut, a search plugin for Outlook. Here's the post I ran across from Bruce McCarthy. Down the article a bit he embeds a link to his downloads area, which might be one of the few places to find it these days. In the comments, you'll find the link to the needed 'hack' to make this work with OL 2007.


I'm letting it finish indexing my billion emails & will post later how well I find it performs.