The Outlook versions I use are Office 365 and Outlook 2010, but all options below should work with Outlook 2013 as well. I have used all of these at one time or another and I have eventually eliminated all but the last. There are third party plugins that facilitate adding notes to mail messages, but for this article I will limit the scope to Microsoft Office products.īelow are a few options you can try. For now, we can only pick one or two imperfect workarounds and hope that Microsoft will some day add this as a feature. There are numerous imperfect ways to add notes to email messages received or sent but no perfect method. A question I have been asked numerous times is how to add personal notes, annotations, additional information or comments to an email that you have sent or received.