Add Personal Note to emails received

[OneBigNewbie]

Is there a free program available which allows me to add my personal notes to an email I received ?

This is required because it reminds me on what my response was since I might talk directly to the email sender instead of replying using email to the original sender. The personal note would serve as a record on the content of my response, date, time and method of response, etc.

Here is what I am doing currently if I want to add my own personal notes to an email message:
- I open the respective e-mail, and use 'reply' to add my own notes (in different font & colour), it can be a general one-liner (for the entire email), or can be a few lines along the text of the original email.
- I then address the 'reply' to myself (to a separate email account that I set up in Live/Hotmail or Gmail) and send the reply there after changing the subject line on the original email to "PNOTE" to replace the "FW" etc (which Live/Hotmail or Gmail may add to all replies).

[HAN]

I would just "Forward" the email back to yourself. That way, you only have to maintain one email account. (Unless you want these marked up emails to be in a separate account for some reason. Even in that case, I'd probably still use one account and create a folder for marked up emails and move them to it.)

[Steve R Jones]

You don't even have to forward it after clicking the forward button...

Click Forward...Type notes....Click SAVE.... Drag it from the DRAFT's folder to whereever you want.