Which Outlook organizer plug-in is best?

Best Outlook data management plug-in?

CLRSQL- Technology and Current Events, Reloaded — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 03:18:00 GMT

If you have a suggestion on the best Outlook data management plug-in, please leave a comment here....

re: Which Outlook organizer plug-in is best?

AJ — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:44:00 GMT

I use Getting Things Done, but I've recently started using Franklin Covey's PlanPlus. My favorite feature is the weekly task planner, which allows me to drag and drop tasks to plan the week. It is everything the Outlook "timeline" view should've been (I always wondered why I couldn't move tasks around in the standard timeline view)

I also like the Projects feature, which groups tasks into Projects and gives you the ability to organize tasks in a hierarchy.

The home page "dashboard" is useful... it combines your tasks, calendar, email, and a scratchpad all on one screen. I have a similar custom outlook today html page I made, but it's not quite as good as this one.

Installing PlanPlus has also created a positive side effect of the Outlook process shutting down completely when I exit the application (before that I would have to kill the 70mb outlook.exe process)

Hopefully I can use it along with Getting Things Done... I love the "Delegate" and "Defer" buttons in GTD. Creating a followup task when you delegate something is important. And moving things out of your inbox with "Defer" helps you focus on the things that you can work on now. I have some usability issues with GTD, like selecting a folder to file emails, but overall it is pretty good.

So to sum it up, I'm using PlanPlus to plan and manage my tasks and appointments. I'm using GTD to remove clutter from my inbox by using the Delegate, Action, and Defer buttons.

re: Which Outlook organizer plug-in is best?

Jonathan Poon [MSFT] — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:32:00 GMT

I would also like to find out what your findings are.

Organize yourself

Khurram Aziz — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:02:00 GMT

re: Which Outlook organizer plug-in is best?

Annar — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:39:00 GMT

How about Taskline? It looks good for scheduling tasks.

By the way, would you mind tell us what RSS reader you are using? I also read RSS feed from lots of blog. I tried several RSS reader, and their perform badly when I subscribe to lots of RSS feed. : (

re: Which Outlook organizer plug-in is best?

Randy H. — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:19:00 GMT

I am using NewsGator. I like its integration with Outlook, and I've never had issues when subscribing to large numbers of feeds, even though now I'm down to a smaller number.

re: Which Outlook organizer plug-in is best?

William D. Bartholomew — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:24:00 GMT

I'm trialling Getting Things Done at the moment and so far I'm pretty happy with it (I read the book so I understand the system reasonably well).

For reading blogs I can't recommend Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/) enough... It's a web-based reader with a great feature set. You can read your RSS feeds from anywhere and be completely up-to-date. I am so glad I gave up trying desktop readers.

re: Which Outlook organizer plug-in is best?

MN — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:00:00 GMT

I am using NewsGator as well. The best part about using an RSS Reader integrated with outlook is that you can search using Google Desktop.

NewsGator + GTD

John Evdemon — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:18:00 GMT

I use both Newsgator and Getting Things Done.

GTD is a wonderful tool and does a great job at organizing and prioritizing your To Do Lists, Delegated Tasks, etc. Once you've tried it its hard to do without.

NewsGator is a great tool for keeping up with various blogs within Outlook. NewsGator also supports downloading embedded content so you can use it for Podcasts as well. I've heard that NewsGator also supports Atom but I've yet to see it work.

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Owen — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:18:00 GMT

I've been using Getting Things Done for about 6 months now. It provides support for a model very similar to the Sally McGhee model for Outlook, with projects and next actions, but provides an integrated tool. I don't know of a tool that is closer to the McGhee presentations... I was a beta tester for the Covey tools, and didn't like it as much. The Covey tool seemed to take me "out" of Outlook too much. Have not tried ClearContext. I'm pleased with the Getting Things Done. It automates the multiple steps that you sometimes want to take upon receipt of an email (assign a task, associate with a project, file into a sub-folder...)

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