Monthly Archives: October 2012

Outlook 2013: Fixing the Harder to Open To-Do Bar

October 30, 2012 [updated Dec 20, 2013] If you have been playing with the Outlook 2013 Preview, one thing you may have noticed is that the To-Do Bar’s display controls have changed a lot compared to Outlook 2007 and 2010. … Continue reading

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Some articles about Outlook 2013 and Outlook.com

October 26, 2012 Here are some links to some articles about Outlook 2013 that may be of interest to you. Outlook 2013 has a new Quick Reply feature that allows you to write your reply right in the reading pane: … Continue reading

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The New Window 8 Tablets and MYN/1MTD

October 25, 2012 This Friday, October 26 (tomorrow), Microsoft releases Windows 8. It’s a major new release with a lot of good new capability. By the way, the full version of Windows 8 is now called Windows 8 Pro, which … Continue reading

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The Many Flavors of E-mail and Outlook from Microsoft

October 25, 2012 I don’t know about you, but my head has been spinning in the last months as I consider all the different Microsoft offered e-mail programs, and how they relate to Outlook and Exchange. I watch these because … Continue reading

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Michael Featured on Cover of new iPad-based Time Management Magazine

Oct 5, 2012 There’s a brand new iPad-based magazine out from the Canadian publisher Glenn Watt, and I have been featured on its cover this month. It’s called Time Management, and it offers a cross-section of various time management systems … Continue reading

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Is Your Outlook Slow? You May Have Exceeded Exchange’s Single-Folder Item limit

October 5, 2012 Has your Exchange-based Outlook mail client performance gotten slower over time? For example, is Outlook Search getting slower? Or do you often get a message saying something like “Requesting data from Microsoft Exchange Server” that is slow … Continue reading

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Our Obsession with E-mail and “Busyness”—and Finding a Balance

October 3, 2012 Why do many of us need to check e-mail all the time? Why do many of us choose to work on e-mail and other things even in our free time? In other words, why are we so … Continue reading

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Is Your Task List Too Big and Out of Control?

October 3, 2012 Is your current task list is too long and out of control? Are you a One Minute To-Do List (1MTD) or MYN user, but perhaps have given up using it because your task list has gotten so … Continue reading

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