Tasks and Time Management in Outlook

Dear readers, Thank you for all of your suggestions and feedback to this blog. There will not be any...

Date: 05/31/2008

I recently was passed a blog that I thought might interest some of you about how to use OneNote as...

Date: 06/20/2007

The Outlook Team has just created a new blog: https://blogs.msdn.com/outlook. Going forward, the...

Date: 06/13/2007

Hey everyone, please get the latest update for Outlook 2007. It has several performance improvements...

Date: 04/17/2007

Saw this article in the Seattle PI this morning and thought it might interest some of you:...

Date: 01/23/2007

I am excited to announce that the Outlook 2007 gadgets for the Windows Vista Sidebar have just been...

Date: 12/05/2006

I am happy to announce that on Friday, November 3 the 2007 Microsoft Office system was released to...

Date: 11/17/2006

I have heard of a few instances where people love the To-Do Bar, but can't figure out how to get...

Date: 10/26/2006

Hey you! I am looking for some good scenarios around lightweight project management (hierarchical...

Date: 10/18/2006

The following is the first in a series of two posts from Jon Kaufthal, a program manager from the...

Date: 10/09/2006

The following is the second in a series of two posts from Jon Kaufthal, a program manager from the...

Date: 10/09/2006

Check out Olya's latest post on Assigning Outlook tasks from OneNote shared notebooks. She details...

Date: 10/05/2006

For some of you, flags may have had a whole different meaning, and the fact that the To-Do Bar is...

Date: 09/29/2006

For all you OneNote fans out there, Olya has just started her own OneNote Blog. Her blog will...

Date: 09/26/2006

An update (technical refresh) for Beta 2 has been released. As this is an update, it needs to be...

Date: 09/19/2006

Do you have a pst or an archive that has tasks and flagged mail it, but the tasks and flagged mail...

Date: 07/31/2006

Every now and then someone asks about how to use Outlook 2007 with the Getting Things Done (GTD)...

Date: 07/19/2006

Since starting work in Outlook, I have begun to think about the unwritten rules of e-mail etiquette...

Date: 06/30/2006

Here is a post from Olya Veselova of OneNote. A few of you have mentioned in comments How I work...

Date: 06/13/2006

From Hank Leukart: Working at Microsoft is the most fun when we get to fulfill customers’ dreams –...

Date: 06/09/2006

Now that Beta2 is out, it seems like high time I explain how I use the new time management system in...

Date: 06/01/2006

Hooray! Beta2 is out! Checkout https://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx for more...

Date: 05/23/2006

There is a good post on internet calendars written by Can Comertoglu, Outlook PM on Michael...

Date: 05/16/2006

Andrew Coates was kind enough to point out that there is another way to hide a folder that is much,...

Date: 04/19/2006

Recently, I received the following e-mail and I thought I would post my response: Hi Melissa, Since...

Date: 04/18/2006

Here is a post from Hank Leukart about the Outlook 12 Calendar. -Melissa Over the past 15 years,...

Date: 04/14/2006

If you came to my website looking for the Office Blogs, here they are: General Office Blogs:...

Date: 04/13/2006

As you might have guessed from my post on March 31 about dragging mail to the Date Navigator to make...

Date: 04/11/2006

Two weeks ago, I attended the 18th Annual National Association of Professional Organizers...

Date: 04/05/2006

How often have you received an e-mail that is about something you want to put on your calendar? For...

Date: 03/31/2006

The following is from guest blogger Andrew Ash. Enjoy! -Melissa Hi! My name is Andrew Ash and I am a...

Date: 03/21/2006

Now that Beta1 Technical Refresh (B1TR) has been released, so are many of the new pretty visuals. I...

Date: 03/16/2006

A similar message has already been posted to the newsgroups, and appears in the readme for Beta1...

Date: 03/15/2006

Below are some tips for the Tasks Module (most are oldies (will work in most versions) but goodies):...

Date: 03/02/2006

Click on Tasks in the Navigation Pane to get to the Tasks Module Outlook's Tasks Module is the place...

Date: 02/24/2006

The following is from guest blogger and fellow PM, Hank Leukart. Enjoy! -Melissa Greetings! My name...

Date: 02/17/2006

How often have you sent an e-mail to someone and thought to yourself “I better follow up with them...

Date: 01/26/2006

In this release of Outlook, we considered adding subtasks, but decided that the primary problem that...

Date: 01/26/2006

Let me start by saying that the next version of Outlook 12 will not have sub-tasks. However, there...

Date: 01/13/2006

Part of efficient time management is making time for one’s tasks. To help our customers get an...

Date: 01/05/2006

To help people get a handle on their time and tasks, we are introducing the To-Do Bar into Outlook....

Date: 12/20/2005

A big part of the flagging in Outlook 12 is about forcing the question: When am I going to deal with...

Date: 12/14/2005

This is just a short post about a general way to deal with mail that many time management...

Date: 12/09/2005

Before delving into Outlook 12’s task management system, I want to describe my three tenets: reduce...

Date: 12/02/2005

I already posted this to the Beta1 newsgroup, but it seems appropriate to post here as well. While...

Date: 11/30/2005

In our research for Outlook 12, we* found that less than 30 percent of Outlook users use the Tasks...

Date: 11/30/2005

Hi, My name is Melissa MacBeth and I design features for Microsoft Office Outlook. Specifically, I...

Date: 11/28/2005