Managing Your Tasks With OneNote

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Task Management and keyboard shortcuts for OneNote

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dougcar — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:30:22 GMT

David, two questions

. I don't see the link in outlook back to one note when the task i created in onenote is open in outook.

2. what happens in outlook if Onenote is synching between my desktop and laptop?

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DavidRasmussen — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 08:39:01 GMT

Doug,
The link in outlook back to OneNote should be a OneNote file icon called "Link to task in OneNote". You double click it to go back to the entry in OneNote. Having said that there is a bug in Beta 2 that causes this not show up correctly for quite a number of people. We're working on fixing that.

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larz01 — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:40:35 GMT

David,

I like your tasks with OneNote sugestions, do you have any ideas for tasks with OneNote Mobile? I'd like to be able to cross link the task list to OneNote mobile so I have with me on my smartphone as well.

It should still sync to the full PC version and function as you suggested.

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DavidRasmussen — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:19:54 GMT

Larz,

Because of the way tasks are linked between OneNote and Outlook, my tasks (which end up as Outlook tasks) show up in my task list on Pocket PC and I personally manage them from there because you can check them off etc. So I use OneNote Mobile for reference information and lists etc. that sync with OneNote, but I manage my tasks using OneNote+Outlook on the desktop and the regular task list on the Pocket PC.

And yes, there are lots of obvious things we could do to make this integration with OneNote Mobile better. It's all just a question of resource trade offs as to when we get to that.

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Dan Biederman — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:42:00 GMT

Help!!! The Task Flags are all greyed out. How do I activate them? Thanks.

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jhofker — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 04:59:07 GMT

Hey David,

I love the idea of managing my tasks inside OneNote. However, for those of us with two computer (I have a tablet and a desktop), it's really hard to do it. Is there a solution for people like me that want to have everything on both computers?

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DavidRasmussen — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:05:29 GMT

You can share OneNote notebooks across machines.

Try looking at the following two links for details of some options:

http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2005/06/25/432556.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2006/06/29/650705.aspx

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nexusstone — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:01:08 GMT

Dave, imo, your comment about Project being ‘good’ but (GIANT) OVERKILL is, imo, (definitely) correct – but, personally, I think that the better (& more promising) approach / solution to all of this is and integration of OneNote with a 'Project at the level you need it' version that incorporates selected features of Project, but leaves behind (or, better yet, selectively exposes in ‘layers’) Project's ‘overkill’ elements.

Personally, I don’t think that Outlook can EVER be sufficiently robust to fill this role. I think that an integration of OneNote with a version (or versions) of Project – that allow you to expose the complexity / capabilities of Project in ‘layers’ – has FAR more promise. After all, Project is a PROVEN (& very good) project management / tasking system. It’s problem for everyday use is its rigidity, complexity & inflexibility. OneNote has the flexibility (in spades); but for tasking & project management, it (BADLY) needs to be integrated with structure (exposed in layers as you have need of the complexity – which theoretically can vary by project).

I use OneNote for my ToDos – but, to date, have not incorporated (nor did I previously understand) the integration with Outlook mentioned here – especially re the Outlook ‘Calendaring’ procedures mentioned (which is missing from OneNote). I'm going to give them a try. My impression is that this 'step' will be 'better' -- but FAR from (fully) satisfactory and complete.

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nexusstone — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:18:07 GMT

Some layered variant of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) might be a good start for an accepted / proven standard approach and basis for 'layering' (selecting & simplifying) the a task interface with OneNote (& Outlook?). In principal, this would allow you to mix (really) simple (one-liner) 'projects' with multi-step / multi-stage ('real', &/or more-serious-to-very-serious, projects).

james m birney

james@stonemtn.com

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nexusstone — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:28:37 GMT

Another SERIOUS issue re task lists that I've run into is for (typically 'oversight' or supervisory) projects that really 'never end' -- meaning: you have to follow up on them REPETITIVELY for a LONG time (or even 'forever'). The only approach that I've been able to develop re these 'forever' projects is (simply) to create as series of repetitive (single) projects (which, in aggregate comprise a long-term project. Using this approach, MSProject-style project-management projects appear to (present the epitomy of OVERKILL &) are essentially useless (& drive you CRAZY).

I don't quite know how OneNote might be better structures to handle this -- but, I do know that OneNote is FAR more flexible, which implies to me that there may be some (substantial) incremental value in doing something with OneNote that canNOT be done very well with other approaches (that I am aware of).

james m birney

james@stonemtn.com

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