Tasks and Time Management in Outlook
Thank you for all of the comments and suggestions
Dear readers, Thank you for all of your suggestions and feedback to this blog. There will not be any...
Date: 05/31/2008
OneNote and GTD
I recently was passed a blog that I thought might interest some of you about how to use OneNote as...
Date: 06/20/2007
New Outlook Team Blog
The Outlook Team has just created a new blog: https://blogs.msdn.com/outlook. Going forward, the...
Date: 06/13/2007
Outlook2007 Performance Update Now Available!
Hey everyone, please get the latest update for Outlook 2007. It has several performance improvements...
Date: 04/17/2007
Interesting PI article
Saw this article in the Seattle PI this morning and thought it might interest some of you:...
Date: 01/23/2007
The Outlook Gadgets are here!!!
I am excited to announce that the Outlook 2007 gadgets for the Windows Vista Sidebar have just been...
Date: 12/05/2006
Office 2007 has been Released To Manufacturing!
I am happy to announce that on Friday, November 3 the 2007 Microsoft Office system was released to...
Date: 11/17/2006
Don't Delete: Mark it Complete
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
Give me your best scenario
Hey you! I am looking for some good scenarios around lightweight project management (hierarchical...
Date: 10/18/2006
Project Server Tasks in Outlook: Part 1
The following is the first in a series of two posts from Jon Kaufthal, a program manager from the...
Date: 10/09/2006
Project Server Tasks in Outlook: Part 2
The following is the second in a series of two posts from Jon Kaufthal, a program manager from the...
Date: 10/09/2006
Olya's latest post: Assigning Tasks from Shared OneNote Notebooks
Check out Olya's latest post on Assigning Outlook tasks from OneNote shared notebooks. She details...
Date: 10/05/2006
Make your To-Do Bar only show tasks
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
Olya's OneNote Blog
For all you OneNote fans out there, Olya has just started her own OneNote Blog. Her blog will...
Date: 09/26/2006
Beta 2 Technical Refresh is out!
An update (technical refresh) for Beta 2 has been released. As this is an update, it needs to be...
Date: 09/19/2006
Make that PST show up on the To-Do Bar
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
Outlook 2007 and Getting Things Done
Every now and then someone asks about how to use Outlook 2007 with the Getting Things Done (GTD)...
Date: 07/19/2006
E-mail Etiquette
Since starting work in Outlook, I have begun to think about the unwritten rules of e-mail etiquette...
Date: 06/30/2006
OneNote and Outlook Task Syncing - OneNote notes as context for your tasks (from Olya Veselova)
Here is a post from Olya Veselova of OneNote. A few of you have mentioned in comments How I work...
Date: 06/13/2006
By Popular Demand
From Hank Leukart: Working at Microsoft is the most fun when we get to fulfill customers’ dreams –...
Date: 06/09/2006
How I work with Outlook 12
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
Beta2 has been released!
Hooray! Beta2 is out! Checkout https://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx for more...
Date: 05/23/2006
Internet Calendars
There is a good post on internet calendars written by Can Comertoglu, Outlook PM on Michael...
Date: 05/16/2006
Addendum to How to show tasks from some folders and not others in the To-Do Bar - a how-to guide
Andrew Coates was kind enough to point out that there is another way to hide a folder that is much,...
Date: 04/19/2006
How to show tasks from some folders and not others in the To-Do Bar - a how-to guide
Recently, I received the following e-mail and I thought I would post my response: Hi Melissa, Since...
Date: 04/18/2006
The electronic time management revolution will not be televised
Here is a post from Hank Leukart about the Outlook 12 Calendar. -Melissa Over the past 15 years,...
Date: 04/14/2006
Office Blogs
If you came to my website looking for the Office Blogs, here they are: General Office Blogs:...
Date: 04/13/2006
Office Live - what is it?
As you might have guessed from my post on March 31 about dragging mail to the Date Navigator to make...
Date: 04/11/2006
NAPO
Two weeks ago, I attended the 18th Annual National Association of Professional Organizers...
Date: 04/05/2006
Make that mail an appointment
How often have you received an e-mail that is about something you want to put on your calendar? For...
Date: 03/31/2006
Andrew Ash on SharePoint Tasks
The following is from guest blogger Andrew Ash. Enjoy! -Melissa Hi! My name is Andrew Ash and I am a...
Date: 03/21/2006
Beta1 Technical Refresh is Out!
Now that Beta1 Technical Refresh (B1TR) has been released, so are many of the new pretty visuals. I...
Date: 03/16/2006
Beta Testers: Please Reset Your To-Do Bar
A similar message has already been posted to the newsgroups, and appears in the readme for Beta1...
Date: 03/15/2006
Tips for the Outlook Tasks Module
Below are some tips for the Tasks Module (most are oldies (will work in most versions) but goodies):...
Date: 03/02/2006
The Tasks Module
Click on Tasks in the Navigation Pane to get to the Tasks Module Outlook's Tasks Module is the place...
Date: 02/24/2006
Hank Leukart on Color Categories
The following is from guest blogger and fellow PM, Hank Leukart. Enjoy! -Melissa Greetings! My name...
Date: 02/17/2006
Send and Track
How often have you sent an e-mail to someone and thought to yourself “I better follow up with them...
Date: 01/26/2006
More on subtasks
In this release of Outlook, we considered adding subtasks, but decided that the primary problem that...
Date: 01/26/2006
A word about subtasks
Let me start by saying that the next version of Outlook 12 will not have sub-tasks. However, there...
Date: 01/13/2006
The Daily Task List: Tasks on the Calendar
Part of efficient time management is making time for one’s tasks. To help our customers get an...
Date: 01/05/2006
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....
Date: 12/20/2005
Defer It
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
4 Ds
This is just a short post about a general way to deal with mail that many time management...
Date: 12/09/2005
Tenets of task management
Before delving into Outlook 12’s task management system, I want to describe my three tenets: reduce...
Date: 12/02/2005
A word about Color Categories and Outlook 2003 Quick Flags
I already posted this to the Beta1 newsgroup, but it seems appropriate to post here as well. While...
Date: 11/30/2005
How did we get here?
In our research for Outlook 12, we* found that less than 30 percent of Outlook users use the Tasks...
Date: 11/30/2005
Welcome!
Hi, My name is Melissa MacBeth and I design features for Microsoft Office Outlook. Specifically, I...
Date: 11/28/2005