Archives for the 'outlook' Category
Displaying Two Time Zones in Outlook [My Stuff for Getting Things Done]
Recently, I have needed to schedule meetings in Outlook with colleagues in the UK. Albeit a simple 6 hour time difference, I am a bit time-math challenged and prefer a visual representation of the time difference when scheduling meetings. Microsoft Outlook has a feature for this.
To display 2 time zones on your Outlook calendar, follow [...]
Open Outlook and Go Directly to Your Tasks [Stuff for Getting Things Done]
As noted a few weeks back, I had switched to Evernote for collecting and managing my to-do’s. Yesterday, I moved my task list back to Microsoft Outlook. Why? Managing two different places for my stuff was driving me crazy. I needed one integrated place for my stuff, and since I spend most of my day [...]
Using Outlook 2007 as My Trusted System [GTD Wannabe]
A few months ago, I posted about resisting your trusted system, and admitted that I had come full circle back to using Outlook for all of my GTD needs.
You may be surprised, but I’m still using it. It’s most definitely my trusted system. All of my important next actions go there; my hard landscape, repeating [...]
Mi configuración GTD [El Canasto]
El año pasado escribió sobre las herramientas que uso para gestionar tareas y proyectos a casa y en la oficina. En resumen: un PC con Outlook (y el complemento GTD) en la oficina, un PC con Palm Desktop a casa y un Palm Zire para sincronizar las dos PCs y para acceder a toda la [...]
Actualización de ActionThis [El Canasto]
Durante el fin de semana, ActionThis ha añadido nuevos funcionalidades, incluyendo soporte para usar Outlook para tareas personales, mejoras en la impresión desde Outlook y otros.
Para tu memoria: ActionThis es un gestor de tareas para equipos en internet, pero con un plugin para Outlook.
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Chandler - open source Outlook replacement [Hack Your Day]
Chandler (Bing) is an open source project I came across a while ago, and don’t use, but I can recommend it to anyone. I can describe it basically as an Outlook replacement, with huge, huge benefits for groups of people working together.
Chandler in itself is also cool, you can overviews, email, tasks, calendars, the whole [...]
Google Calendar Sync [Hack Your Day]
Google released a neat tool for syncing Google Calandar and the Outlook Calendar. It works both ways, and this is probably the reason I am going back to Outlook again. I love Google Calendar, but Outlook gives you a whole lot more tools.
Just to be a Google fan I have been using Google Calendar, so [...]
Using the E-mail Subject Line to set Expectations [Stuff for Getting Things Done]
I’m a big fan of using the e-mail Subject Line to define my expectations of the recipient. It’s a quick and easy way to let the reader know up-front what you will require of them. I call this the action statement. I enclose the action statement in brackets and use all CAPS to set [...]
Move It So You Won’t Lose It (Email Monday) [Tech Rest]
When you have more than one screen page of emails in your Inbox, you start to go numb to them. In effect, you lose them.
Many people use their Inbox as a todo list. Since the average person gets over 80 messages a day, the Inbox just doesn’t work very well as a todo list: [...]
9 Great E-mail Tips [Stuff for Getting Things Done]
Kelly Forrister from the David Allen Company shared the following 9 e-mail tips with me a few months back. I have incorporated a number of these tips into my daily e-mail routine. I’d highly recommend giving a few of these a try. I would also recommend sending all or a subset of these to [...]