Monthly Archives: May 2011

May 31, 2011 Here are two excerpts from the new third edition of Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook. They are on creating rules in Outlook 2011 for Mac to automatically categorize mail coming into your in-box, based on sender … Continue reading →

May 31, 2011 Here’s a Windows Phone 7 app that syncs tasks with Exchange. It’s not yet MYN compliant, but still it’s a start. But some background first. One of my great disappointments with Microsoft as of late is the … Continue reading →

May 28, 2011 I am pleased to announce the the next MYN Outlook Webinar is now scheduled for Tues July 19 through Friday July 22, 2011. This consists of four 1.5 hr sessions that start at 1PM PST each day. … Continue reading →

May 27, 2011 In recent weeks I have met a number of people in the Outlook seminars I teach who tell me they do the following: they delete all mail they are “done with,” including important mail, and then use … Continue reading →

May 23, 2011 One thing GTD (David Allen) and I agree on is that nearly all tasks you put on your task list should be Next Actions. Using next action tasks leads to this fact: most next action tasks on … Continue reading →

May 19, 2011 For those of you using a Palm Pre or some other WebOS device (now owned by HP), here is a tasks management software package that appears to work with MYN. It’s called Done! and you can see … Continue reading →

May 16, 2011 I just posted an updated ToodleDo WhitePaper. Inside it is the following table that summarizes my mobile solutions recommendations. The table assumes you are syncing with a tasks server in the cloud. The tasks server (Exchange or … Continue reading →

May 12, 2011 Here’s an excerpt from the newly updated Outlook book. It is about what to do with “squishy” tasks, things you are not really sure how to proceed on. Like that big report you need to write and … Continue reading →

May 10, 2011 I often get well intentioned comments stating that e-mail will be dead soon, with all the new reliance on social media. But I’ve never believed that would be true for business communications. While social media may carry … Continue reading →

May 8, 2011 I was talking with the managing director of a large (100K+ employees) management consulting company at a social event the other evening and he described their main problem with e-mail these days. He said that their managers … Continue reading →