mrohde on September 7th, 2010

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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mrohde on September 5th, 2010

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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I have spent quite a bit of effort honing my skills to make sure that I get things done and more importantly get the right things done but one of the great equalizers seems to be the e-mail in box. I have found a couple great blog post that are worthy of sharing as well [...]

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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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mrohde on May 27th, 2010

Many people don’t realize they can change the standard toolbars in Microsoft Outlook, or other Microsoft Office products for that matter. After accidentally printing a sensitive e-mail by clicking on the “Print” button in Outlook I decided to reduce the risk by removing it from the toolbar since it is already in a convenient place [...]

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mrohde on December 5th, 2009

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 [...]

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As my readers know I follow many of the Getting Things Done methods and when it comes to e-mail I try (usually unsuccessfully) to keep my inbox uncluttered.  In Outlook there is a great feature called Flags that will turn an e-mail into an item on the To-Do list without creating a task.  Of course [...]

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