It doesn’t apply to people who use a different mail client, for whom Focused Inbox won’t work at all, and here’s why.Ĭlutter is an entirely different folder. Microsoft recognized that Clutter wasn’t working and pretty quickly replaced it with Focused Inbox.” Some users assumed that Clutter was just a different way of filtering spam, so they never looked in the folder or just deleted the contents without reading anything that was there. A lot of users didn’t like going to a different folder to find messages that Outlook thought weren’t important, especially because Clutter only got accurate if you “trained” it by manually moving messages between Inbox and Clutter. “Focused Inbox is a replacement for Clutter, which wasn’t particularly popular. We explicitly said in our article about Clutter and Focused Inbox: Focused Inbox uses the same algorithm, but allows people to keep their mail in their Inbox, which means just having a single place to find everything. Clutter was not particularly popular when it came out, and it took people a long time to get used to it. Why Is Getting Rid of Clutter a Bad Thing? That’s going to cause some users a lot of problems and doesn’t square with Microsoft’s supposed new approach under Satya Nadella.
Microsoft has now confirmed that Clutter will be gone by January 31st, 2020, leaving users with just Focused Inbox. Focused Inbox-which you can toggle on and off using a switch in the View tab-just changes your Inbox to show “Focused” and “Other” tabs.
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