Using Sub Folders

[DMc]

Hopefully someone can also explain what I'm missing again - I seem to speak a different language to the OL programmers.
I use lots of contact subfolders and want to do so with tasks and calendars, but OL only gives reminders for items in the default folders. It'd be so much better if I could keep work and home tasks in different folders & have both give alarms when required.
I use categories but that's only half the answer.
Even having contacts in different folders seems to cause hassles when OL tries to match email names.

[MaryJ]

use categories to sort items that need flags. reminders only fire in the default folders as you found out.

once you start using categories you can use views to quickly switch between them.