Black Belt Productivity

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.

Isaac Bowman has adapted the new Google CL2 for use in his GTD^® system. It is an interesting implementation. I posed a couple of question about it in the Comments section.

GTD with Google’s New Calendar | Isaac Bowman

I have toyed with using a web-based calendar (currently, I am using a Moleskine Weekly Pocket Planner) as a backup for my Moleskine. I have accounts on Google, 30boxes, one other one that I cannot think of.

Michael