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Outlook Search Bar Moved to Top

If you are in the Office Insiders group (and so getting early peaks at new Outlook features), you may have noticed that in a recent Outlook update the Search bar has been moved to the top of the Windows Desktop … Continue reading

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Option to Turn Off Flagged Mail Highlighting Added

In an Office 365 update I recently got, Microsoft has added in the Outlook Options, Mail tab, a way to turn off the Flagged Mail Highlighting feature that they added to Windows Outlook about 6 months ago. Just scroll to … Continue reading

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New Look for Microsoft To-Do Apps

Microsoft has just released new versions of many of its To-Do apps that have a very distinctive new look. They have put a dark background around the entire list now (instead of just at the top). The task body remains … Continue reading

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Using Remember the Milk with MYN, Guest Post

The app called Remember the Milk (RTM) is one of the first-released and still best-known web-based to-do list apps out there. Years ago when I first looked at it, it lacked features needed to support MYN, so I dismissed it. … Continue reading

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Outlook Processed Mail folder vs. Archive folder

As you probably know, I strongly recommend that you use a single folder for most of your Outlook email filing. In my Outlook book (Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook Ed 5), and in my MYN-Outlook Video Course, and in … Continue reading

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Recent Microsoft Outlook Online Software Change: A Much Better To-Do Tasks Pane

If you use Outlook Online in a web browser, and your Exchange server is hosted at Microsoft, then you might see that an important change has been made in the last few weeks:  the optional To-Do Tasks Pane has been … Continue reading

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MYN for Apple Users, Guest Post by Charles Olsen

This is a guest post from an avid user of MYN, Charles Olsen, who found a creative way to use the software Things on the Mac to implement the MYN tasks system. What follows is his well-written article (with me … Continue reading

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New Video Courses Released Today

I announced in today’s newsletter that two new video course sets were released today: a new updated MYN Outlook Video Course, and a new Outlook Inbox “Super Ninja” Course. Details of all this are in the newsletter at this link: … Continue reading

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New Video Added to Outlook Inbox Ninja course

I just added a new Lesson 8.5 called Advanced Quick Filing to the Outlook Inbox Ninja course. This 16-minute video lesson shows more advanced ways to quickly move selected emails out of your inbox. It shows why, even if you … Continue reading

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New MYN Video Course and Super Ninja Video Course Coming Soon

My flagship video courses: The MYN Outlook Complete Video Training and the Outlook Inbox Ninja course, are both being upgraded in a few weeks. Both of these new upgrades will be released in the last week in August. Here are … Continue reading

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