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Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:15 PM

Simplifying My Computer: Outlook

I’ve been trying to simplify my computer so that I can work faster and with less distracting visual clutter. Today, I’m taking on Microsoft Outlook. (I’m currently using Outlook 2010 Technical Preview.) Here’s what I did to simplify my Outlook layout:
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Monday, July 27, 2009 5:25 PM

OneNote Replica of Todopaper

Someone recently asked how Microsoft Office OneNote could possibly be used as a replica of popular list manager Todopaper . Here's what I came up with: Add your to-do items to a OneNote page, one item per line.* If you want a to-do style check box next
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Friday, December 19, 2008 8:33 PM

Most Important Tasks

I find the concept of most important tasks to be very helpful in identifying my most important work and having a sense of accomplishment while completing it. I got this idea from the following two blog posts: Purpose Your Day: Most Important Task (MIT)
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Monday, December 15, 2008 9:54 PM

Tackling E-Mail, Part 4: Using Outlook Keyboard Shortcuts

Here are the keyboard shortcuts that I use most frequently in Outlook 2007 to speed up creating and managing my e-mail: Delete: Ctrl + D Close Window: Alt + F4 New... Mail Message: Ctrl + N Task: Ctrl + Shift + K Note: Ctrl + Shift + N Go To... Mail:
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Monday, December 08, 2008 8:00 PM

Tackling E-Mail, Part 3: Delaying Responses

In addition to limiting the number of times that I check e-mail each day, I'm also doing the following to free up more of my time for project work: Pushing back on all potentially actionable e-mail that doesn't have a clear action or deadline stated.
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Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:18 AM

Tackling E-Mail, Part 2: Checking E-Mail

I try to look at my e-mail only two or three times a day. I get so sidetracked, so distracted sometimes at work when I look at my e-mail that I've had to stop doing it as much. I've also turned off my Outlook e-mail notifications to keep me from getting
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:50 PM

Tackling E-Mail, Part 1: Inbox Subfolders

I use Microsoft Outlook to manage my e-mail (go figure, since I work for Microsoft!). I recently reduced and simplified the number of Outlook Inbox subfolders that I have as follows, and I feel like I'm really benefitting from it: A Follow Up subfolder.
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Monday, September 04, 2006 3:51 AM

Getting (My) Things Done

When I first started working at Microsoft many years ago (almost 9 years, in fact), many of the folks at my new hire orientation told me that I would be "blasted by an information firehose." They were right, of course, and each year that goes by magnifies
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