Friday, June 9th, 2006...2:02 pm
The Evil Empire is Listening
I installed the Office 2007 and OneNote 2007 BETAs last week. While trolling for info about them, I found this on the Task and Time Management in Outlook blog on MSDN:
Originally Posted by Melissa MacBeth, Features Designer for Microsoft Outlook
We then did research to figure out how to modify Outlook in order to help people to be more effective at managing their time. We looked at many different time management systems, including Getting Things Done by David Allen, Take Back Your Life! By Sally McGhee and her Microsoft training course, Managing Actions, The Organized Executive by Stephanie Winston, the Franklin Covey/Quest model, Time Management from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern, among others.
There is a lot of good stuff coming in Outlook 2007. You can download the Outlook 2007 beta at Microsoft’s site.
I am going to try to use the new Outlook 2007 in my revamp of my system. I think that I am going to go back to using my HP iPAQ 4700 for tasks and calendar. Outlook 2007 does do iCAL subscriptions but I have yet to find out how. I saw a post with a screenshot of Outlook 2007 with someone’s Google Calendar so it must be able to be done. I will have to investigate it more.
This does mean that I may not use Tracks as much, which disappoints me. I wish that there was a way for it to sync to Outlook so that I could then sync it to my PDA. I really like the app. But there is no way for me to have my NAs with me all of the time. I am going to investigate MyLifeOrganized a little also, as well as add Evernote Plus for project support material. I got EN+ for free through submitting a handwriting sample. You can find details on Evernote’s frontpage.
Jason has been on vacation all week in NYC so I hope that he and his wife have a safe trip back and have a nice weekend to all.
- Michael
4 Comments
June 13th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
I submitted a handwriting sample for a free copy of Evernote Plus also. It was a neat experience, even if it was nothing more than copying a bunch of nonsensical phrases.
Personally, I love the program for support material in my everyday computer related stuff. However, I gave it a shot as a task manager (tried to use the to do list templates etc that came with it) but I gave it up.
I’ll have to download the Outlook 2007 beta. I haven’t used Outlook in years and it might be interesting to see how it’s changed. Thanks for the link.
June 16th, 2006 at 7:59 am
I have found that I am liking EN more and more everyday. Jason uses a lot more than I do. I am still learning. I thought and tried to set it up for task mgmt, then I realized that task mgmt is not its strength (IMHO). I am using it strictly for support material.
I am torn though because I have it on my work laptop, and would like to use it at home, but there is not way to sync the database. I wonder if it will run off of a USB drive.
(Off to the support forums….)
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:31 pm
I don’t know if it’ll run off the USB drive, but I did successfully sync the database using Windows briefcase. The only thing was that I had to make sure to close the program completely before I synced so that it didn’t give me an error message.
However, I found I didn’t really need to keep it synced because I don’t use my desktop and laptop for the same tasks.
My favorite part of EN? The webclipper. I have it installed in Thunderbird, Firefox, and IE. I also like the “Send to Evernote” in my “send to” menu.
All this stuff that I used to have trouble keeping up with is so accessible now. I love it.
July 21st, 2006 at 8:43 pm
I have used evernote on a usb without any issues.
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