Local Notes for Outlook Web
Add private notes to Outlook on the web conversations. Local storage, search, formatting and JSON backup.
Extension for Google Chrome. Your notes stay in your Chrome profile and your emails are not changed.
Important notice
Local Notes is a free personal project. Notes are stored locally in the browser. Compatibility with future versions of Outlook is not guaranteed. Periodic backups are recommended.
What you can do
- Add a note to a conversation and find it again from your message list.
- Write formatted text with the built-in editor.
- Archive and reactivate notes with one click; deleting a note asks for confirmation.
- Search the Archive by text, sender and subject, and use the available filters.
- Export your notes to a JSON backup and re-import the missing ones without automatically overwriting existing notes.
- Get a warning when the same note is edited at the same time in more than one tab.
- Interface in English and Italian: the extension follows your browser's language.
Your notes stay on your computer
The notes and the data needed to link them to conversations are stored locally in the Google Chrome profile, using IndexedDB. The extension has no cloud service of its own for notes or synchronisation and, in version 1.1.0, does not transmit the content of your notes to the developer.
Notes are not automatically synchronised between Chrome profiles or different computers. Each installation has its own archive: the same extension installed from another distribution channel or loaded manually is a separate installation. To move notes, use Export JSON and Import JSON. JSON backups are created on request and contain your data in plain text: keep them in a safe place. More details in the privacy notice.
Compatibility
- Outlook on the web for work or school (Microsoft 365):
outlook.office.com,outlook.office365.comandoutlook.cloud.microsoft. - Personal Outlook on the web: mail only, at
outlook.live.com/mail/. On personal Outlook the extension refuses to create notes for messages without a reliable identifier.
It does not cover calendar, contacts or other Microsoft apps. The extension relies on the structure of the Outlook pages: changes to the site may require updates.
Important: shared archive in the same Chrome profile
Archive, Backup and «Empty local archive» cover all the Outlook mailboxes used in the same Chrome profile, personal and work. From one mailbox you can see and edit the notes of the other mailboxes in the same profile. The extension does not keep two accounts on the same domain separate.
To keep work and personal data apart, use different Chrome profiles.
Use of information and the Chrome Web Store
The use of information received by Local Notes for Outlook Web will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. See the privacy notice.
Privacy and support
Read the privacy notice. For support write to info@il-maniero.it, without attaching backups containing confidential notes or third-party personal data.