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Connect Microsoft Outlook

Your Microsoft email, calendar, and contacts in one connection.

The Outlook connection covers the Microsoft side of your work life in one go.

What you get

Three things, connected as a bundle:

  • Email. Your correspondence becomes relationship history, and commitments become reminders. Bulk and automated mail is filtered out.

  • Calendar. External meetings are logged as interactions with the attendees (internal-only meetings are skipped).

  • Contacts. Your Outlook address book, imported and enriched.

What Goodword does with it

These three sources don't just sit in a list. They build your relationship graph: Goodword's live picture of who you know, how well, and how it's changing.

  • Every email and meeting becomes relationship history, dated and attached to the right person, so each relationship has a real timeline instead of a fuzzy memory.

  • Goodword measures how warm each relationship is from the recency, frequency, and variety of your interactions, so it can tell an active tie from a fading one and resurface the dormant relationships worth reviving.

  • Each person gets enriched with role, company, and background, and kept current as they change jobs.

  • Your commitments become reminders ("I'll send it Friday" in your sent mail).

  • The noise is filtered out (newsletters, bulk mail, internal-only meetings), so what's left is signal.

The payoff is a CRM that builds and maintains itself, and gets sharper with every source you add.

How to connect

  1. Settings → Integrations → Connect on Outlook.

  2. Sign in with Microsoft and approve the permissions.

  3. Set import windows for Email and Calendar in the Manage panel (1y / 3y / 5y / all time).

Connect multiple Outlook accounts, personal and work, and Goodword blends the context from all of them into one picture of each relationship.

Note: Outlook permissions are granted as a bundle, so everything comes together. To stop syncing entirely, disconnect the integration.

Troubleshooting

  • Sync seems stale. If the connection sat inactive for a while, Goodword automatically runs a fresh full sync. Give it a bit.

  • Want more history. Widen the import window in Manage, and Goodword backfills.

  • Emails appearing twice? Messages are deduplicated, so doubles don't happen. If you see one, contact [email protected].

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