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Dec 21, 2011 As you know, in my Outlook Book, I give very specific advice on how to process and empty your Outlook Inbox. That advice includes converting all action e-mails to tasks, filing mail in one folder, and using … Continue reading →

Dec 20, 2011 In this season of giving, here’s an add on to Outlook that prevents too much giving—it’s a module you can download from Microsoft that blocks Reply All. Now, this is not a full solution, because it only … Continue reading →

Dec 15, 2011 Here’s one solution to spending too much time in your e-mail, which is a bad habit that even practiced MYN users can get into. Why is the e-mail trap so easy to fall into? One reason we … Continue reading →

Dec 15, 2011 I continue to be amazed at the rapidly changing smartphone market share numbers. This just came out from NPD Group on U.S. smartphone sales: Google Android: 53% Apple iPhone: 29% BlackBerry: down to 10% (yikes!) Michael

Dec 5, 2011 If you’ve read my recent books, you know I recommend that you have no more than 20 items in the Opportunity Now section of your 1MTD or MYN tasks list. Recall that’s the middle part of the … Continue reading →

Nov 18, 2011 For using MYN, I recommend only one App for iPhone/iPad to take your Outlook/Exchange tasks on the road, and that’s TaskTask. Well, they just updated to v3.2 and so I have new configuration instructions for MYN. I … Continue reading →

Nov 16, 2011 [Mar 4, 2014 update: it appears this app has been discontinued] There’s finally a BlackBerry app out that works well with both 1MTD and MYN. It’s the new version 2.5 of Pocket Informant BlackBerry. It uses ToodleDo … Continue reading →

Nov 15, 2011 I’ve posted a couple times recently here and here about Ultimate To-Do List. It’s an Android Tasks App that recently became MYN compatible; it uses ToodleDo as its tasks server. Well, I finally got around to writing … Continue reading →

Sept 22, 2012 Update: the article linked below was taken down by theinfoboom.com. Link no longer works.  Michael —————— Nov 11, 2011 If you are thinking about installing iCloud and you use Outlook, read this article first: http://www.theinfoboom.com/articles/apple-icloud-outlook-it-just-works-approach-creates-new-it-woes/ Michael

Nov 7, 2011 I’ve been playing with the Android Ultimate To-Do List (UTDL) task app some more and am really liking it (I wrote about it here last week). One thing I just noticed that makes it better than Pocket … Continue reading →