Time Management Ninja has an article entitled 5 Ways to Time Manage your Commute where they offer the suggestions to: Make use of it. Time Shift to Save Time Skip the Commute Sometimes Alternate Mode of Transportation Get a new commute As a person who would commute between one and three hours one way each [...]
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Image via Wikipedia It has been my experience that when you start working with the Getting Things Done method, or any new execution system, it becomes overwhelming how much you need to do. I have 5 suggestions to break though the challenge and get things done. Do the obvious priorities. If your list contains some [...]
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According to “How David Allen organizes his tasks” he maintains his next actions in Lotus Notes as To-Do category with a simple category that defines the context like “Projects”, “Calls”, “At Computer”, etc. This process is similar to the quick steps I use to organize my tasks using Outlook 2010 and earlier versions. I follow [...]
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Image by Spinstah via Flickr One of the biggest challenges I seem to face when dealing with customers and suppliers is coordinating our schedules for meetings. As a Microsoft Outlook and Exchange user this challenges is inherently easier to overcome by using the Schedule assistant and “Free/Busy” tools. I use Google Sync to overcome this [...]
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With the volume of e-mail steadily increasing it’s always a challenge to keep my in in box in check. While I monitor e-mail consistently throughout the day when I am away from my computer conversations continue and the number of e-mails related to topics continue to mount. To save myself time looking at numerous e-mails [...]
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In 2008 I wrote a blog post entitled “Outlook Macro: Flag and Move Message to Follow-up Folder” which has become one of my more popular posts. Nearly two years later this method has, fortunately, become obsolete because of the additions in Quick Step features in Outlook 2010. As part of my Getting Things Gone process [...]
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Last week I finally decided to try Office 2010 and while this isn’t a complete review I thought I would provide my initial impressions. I installed the software on my primary computer with an expectation of seeing how difficult it would be to transition from Microsoft Office 2007 to Microsoft Office 2010—this is a working [...]
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Regular blog readers will notice that e-mail and task managment are a common theme this blog. As I catch up on my blog feeds this weekend I found a great post on the Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog entitled “Best Practices for Outlook 2007″ that reenforces many of the Getting Things Done concepts with tactical [...]
Image by Kasaa via Flickr In the past I have written about GTD techniques and my ubiquitous capture system and from the beginning I have noticed a shift in my methods and techniques. This week I had a bit of an “ah ha moment” when reading a blog post entitled “File Under: Miscellaneous“. The problem [...]
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Like many on the Internet I have been a devote GMail user for a number of years and have grown to love the fact that it allows me to store gigabytes of e-mail on-line. Of course with this much content it becomes unwieldy to find just the right e-mail without mastering a couple of search [...]
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