# Categorize or Tag Emails

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/categorize-or-tag-emails/106750>\
**Category:** Sales Email\
**Tags:** sales\
**Created:** [May 8, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/categorize-or-tag-emails/106750 "2024-05-08T18:55:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![LNitti](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/lnitti/32/34388_2.png) [@LNitti](https://community.hubspot.com/u/LNitti)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/categorize-or-tag-emails/106750/1 "2024-05-08T18:55:41Z")

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Is it possible to categorize or tag an email in the activity stream? How can we segregate just the prospecting emails from general follow ups? We have a report we are using to track the outgoing prospecting emails and in the report I can’t tell which is just a follow up for something else and which is new outreach.

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**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/categorize-or-tag-emails/106750/2 "2024-05-08T19:05:41Z")

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Hi @LNitti,

Unfortunately not, no, this is not possible. HubSpot doesn’t support creating activity properties or tags.

Other users have requested this before but it’s unfortunately not planned: [https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Custom-properties-for-Activities-Tasks-Meetings-etc/idi-p/204853](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Custom-properties-for-Activities-Tasks-Meetings-etc/idi-p/204853)

Still, you can help others find this more easily and drive traction by upvoting and by accepting my reply as a solution. The product team might reevaluate.

Have a great day!

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**Author:** ![RedYellowBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RedYellowBlue](https://community.hubspot.com/u/RedYellowBlue)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 11:39am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/categorize-or-tag-emails/106750/3 "2026-08-23T11:39:03Z")

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Hi All - I’ve been working with a few of my clients on how to solve this problem and I’ve got a solution - Email Classifier - Email Classifier does exactly this. It reads emails in flight through Outlook or Microsoft 365, classifies them against industry presets (prospecting, follow-up, etc.), and logs the classification natively in HubSpot’s activity stream without storing the raw message. You get segregation by type automatically, plus contact and company timeline updates. I work on the tool—happy to walk through how it’d fit your workflow.