Email reminder and follow up in New Outlook missing

Hi its 2025,

I still do not see the reminder feature in the new outlook when drafting emails to be sent. Am I looking at the wrong place? I also need to set the reminder for recipients, not myself. How can I do it with the new outlook?

I would love to switch back to old outlook however when I try the program goes to a not responding state. I have tried several times with the same outcome. I really miss being able to set reminders along with being able to attach recently saved docs without having to search folders. I thought I was setting reminders by flagging the email and setting a date and time but unfortunately, I never receive a pop-up reminder. New outlook needs A LOT of work to get where it was before.

Thanks - that is the process I used to be able to do but that feature is not enabled. That category does not pop up for me.

just found the following:

**-->  Note:** If you are using Outlook with an IMAP account, you cannot assign categories to an item. The IMAP email account type does not support categories.   since I have email on both computer and phone, I need IMAP and can't use POP...  GRR!

And yes, the follow up reminder feature missing is the bigger question / hassle to everybody's point. I understand that a new version of outlook was built from the ground up and the program was rolled out without this feature. But this is now over 1 year ago which seems like enough time to have this feature figured out by now.

I have the same reminder issue and that was part of my original post. In this case, I was responding to a separate question in the thread about changing colors... Sorry for the confusion.

Hi Al,

Thanks for the alternative, I do use categories already for categorizing stuff. The issue is that not having the ability to set reminders exposes those who use this feature, for losing track of an item that should be followed up on. This was a great feature that is now missing.