Applied Research in a World of Increasing Time Demands
I mentioned in a prior post that I have been looking for someplace on the internet where I could find a serious discussion about the philosphy behind Microsoft Outlook. I hoped that it would include those who developed the software. Well, I found a website that might be serious. Check out this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx I …
I’m not a big fan of lots of tips and fancy tools for professionals that don’t use the fundamentals, but sometimes they can be a lot of fun to play around with! So, I present this interesting list of tools with a caveat – employ them in your habits cautiously, with an understanding of how …
One of the things that I wished Outlook would do intelligently is to link the contents of a time slots with the next logical time slot. For example, I wish I could assign individual time demands to a particular kind of time slot, such as time that I spent at home. It would be able …
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This looks to me like a pretty in-depth newsletter on how best to use Outlook. I don’t think it gets into the design of the software, but it seems to get into some useful distinctions about how best to manage tasks. Once again, however, the system described happens to match the one that the author …
I repeat my opinion that Microsoft Outlook is designed by “feature addition”, rather than driven by a useful philosophy of time management. Programmers with weak time management skills themselves will look for tips that they can hard-wire into the code, thus making it easier to do trivial things, but perhaps harder to do some of …
Just curious, but does anyone know of a place online where people discuss how Microsoft Outlook can be used, and improved? Let me know!
One of the major challenges for a 2Time user at any belt level is to find a system that fits the way in which they process their information. Unfortunately, Microsoft Outlook, the industry leader in this sphere, does not seem to have been designed by a time management user, and instead seems to have been …
I have been looking for a while for some kind of add-on for Microsoft Outlook that will pull together different pieces of information into one single project. I am trying to create something like a “workspace” that brings all the phone numbers, appointments, lists, files etc. into a single place where they can be viewed …
This page is meant as background data for the Decision Tree produced from the podcast episode LiveLab 01 (Parts One and Two) with Dr. Melanie Wilson. Your Current OS Apple Currently, the following apps are iOS enabled: TimeHero, SkedPal, Sorted3, Futurenda and Flux-Speed Schedules. Windows Currently, the following apps are Windows enabled: TimeHero, SkedPal, Futurenda …
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Have you reached the point where you need to look for your next approach to managing your tasks? If you have had this thought, there may be trouble on your horizon. It may mean that our current combination of task management aids (i.e. apps, habits, devices and platforms) has started to develop shortcomings. As you …
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