Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
Hi, I also use this. If I need a "search folder" I build a rule to tag it on the way in. This isn't great as you want to be able to say things like "email is older than 1 week".
If anyone is thinking of doing this, please be aware that if you create a "favorite" that is a tag it will search ALL your email, not just your inbox, for example. So if you have a system of triaging which requires you to ignore emails that are archived you will always need to click on the favorite and then constrain to "Inbox".
Is this perfect? No, but it does work for now (sort of, with caveats).