Excellent Outlook add-ons (from someone who misses Notes)

I'm probably a bit of a masocist, but I can't help but miss Lotus Notes. Whilst I have to admit that now I'm looking after Exchange my users complain a lot less about their mail client, there were just so many cool little tweaks available in Notes, and adding your own (if you didn't mind doing a bit of coding) was so easy.

One addon that I really missed when I switched to Outlook/Exchange was Swiftfile (http://www.research.ibm.com/swiftfile/), so it wasn't long before I found an Outlook equivalent, albeit not a free one.

These guys seem to create some lovely little Outlook utilities http://www.techhit.com/

Simplyfile is the Swiftfile equivalent. It's not quite as good, IMO, as it doesn't give you three choices of folders where a message might fit, but it is pretty close. It also adds the often missed Notes-like ability to turn a mail message into a calendar entry or task, and also to temporarily hide a message ('snooze' it). See the attached screenshot. I can't imagine using Outlook without this - I don't like too much rule based filing, as I prefer to see most things in my Inbox first, and this is an inexpensive godsend, IMO. Set a hotkey in the options and filing mail becomes a joy. Well worth an eval download.

I also just noticed that a particularly busy month or two has pushed my mailbox up to nearly a gig, so thought I'd try their EZDetach, which also looks destined to join my list of essentials - they'll be the only commercial utilities I would definitely purchase, everything else I use (other than Office) is free. EZDetach does a surprisingly good job of detaching masses of files from mail messages, popping them into a folder heirachy and replacing them with links in the mail message. It will even offer to re-attach the files when you forward a mail. Very cool. We don't do any attachment or archive management here (yet), so as a point solution this is a great stop-gap.

Anyone else have any cool Outlook utilities or tools ? Are there better/free alternatives to the above ?