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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:08 AM

Introducing the To-Do Bar

To help people get a handle on their time and tasks, we are introducing the To-Do Bar into Outlook. Outlook 12 Instead of looking at scraps of paper, notepads, planners, and the Outlook Inbox, you can see everything you need to do simply by looking at
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005 6:41 PM

Defer It

A big part of the flagging in Outlook 12 is about forcing the question: When am I going to deal with this? This question is forced when right clicking on the flag column in mail and getting the following menu. Outlook 12 Flag Menu Making a selection here
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Friday, December 09, 2005 5:32 PM

4 Ds

This is just a short post about a general way to deal with mail that many time management philosophies espouse: 1. If it isn ’ t important, delete it. 2. If it can be done in 2 minutes or less, do it. 3. If it isn ’ t for you or if you can, delegate it.
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Friday, December 02, 2005 8:49 PM

Tenets of task management

Before delving into Outlook 12’s task management system, I want to describe my three tenets: reduce your To-Do lists to one; keep your personal and business tasks together in one place; and get your tasks out of your head. (These are not to unique to
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