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Bookworm | Jan 23 2006
The empty Windows section looked so sad, I thought I'd post something here. Any other Windows users hiding out there? [I can definitely understand the appeal of Macs (some wonderful software out there that's Mac-only, for one), but I've just always used Windows (or, *cough*, DOS) machines.] Outlook for email, calendar, and a little task management
Bonsai desktop (for the bulk of my Next Actions, task, project management)
I'm just doing my best to record everything in one of these two tools -- contact information, tasks, projects, lists, etc. 18 Comments
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In my corporate cubicle we...Submitted by Douglas on February 21, 2006 - 1:46pm.
In my corporate cubicle we must use Outlook and the other MS Office tools and EDS have the system screwed down so tight that even simple hacks from the MS web site don't work reliably! So I am like [="Blue"]terrym[/] and use Outlook and a notebook plus synchronisation to an iPaq PDA. Our mailbox size is limited to 256Mb and my mailbox is frequently full! The two ways I stay on top of it are firstly, vigorous use of the delete button and clearing of the Deleted Items folder and secondly, auto-archiving into date stamped archives. I have just read Michael Linenberger's book "Total Workday Control using Microsoft Outlook' and he describes how to do this. I am not sure what you mean by sub-tasks, the idea of GTD is to record the NEXT action a task with sub-tasks implies a project - NA relationship. When I get a job that has a number of defined steps I will create an task and list all those steps in the task. When each step is completed I note in the task what happened and change the categories and due date to refelct the next step. For more complex stuff I use Projects and NAs. In Linenberger's book he recommends not using folders in Outlook but instead adding categories to every email and moving it to a Processed Mail folder. this folder he views by category so that an email can appear in multiple places rather than just one folder. Has anybody used this technique and does it work for you? » POSTED IN:
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