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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Image via Wikipedia This morning when booting my Windows 7 computer I was greeted an error stating: “The server is not responding properly. Verify that the Credential Manager server is properly installed on the target server” when trying to log in. Interestingly this we not the first time I had see the problem since a [...]
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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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 [...]
I was reading a recent post on lifehacker that describes how to use Automator on a Mac to print documents in batches which inspired me to comment on a simple technique I have used for many years. Like most corporate employees I work with a shared network attached printer. The hassles of leaving my desk [...]
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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I was impressed with the a recent article on Unclutter that ask presented the idea of replacing business card files with Evernote. While this was an interesting idea I was impressed with the simplicity of photographing a business card with my cell phone for future recall. As I have mentioned in previous entries I use [...]
In a recent hacking contest at CanSecWest that pit Microsoft, Mac and Linux against each other in a head-to-head hackathon the last surviving system was fully patched Ubuntu system. The first system to fall was the Mac, which succumb to an exploit in Safari on the second day of the three day competition. Vista was [...]