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New Mobile Apps Videos Added to MYN-Outlook Video Course
July 16, 2014 I previously had just one lesson on mobile apps in the MYN Outlook Complete Video Training (the paid course); it was Lesson 22. Well, we just divided that into 3 lessons and put new videos up for the iOS … Continue reading
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1MTD and Inner Sorting of Your Tasks List
July 14, 2014 One minor disadvantage of using The One Minute To-Do List (1MTD), compared to MYN, is that inner sorting sometimes takes a bit more work in 1MTD—and there are a few ways to do it. This is especially … Continue reading
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Another Android Exchange Tasks App
June 30, 2014 I have been meaning to write this for a while. A reader wrote me in March and recommended I look at another Exchange-based task app that he likes. I currently recommend Touchdown as the one app to … Continue reading
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Another Cloud Solution for Outlook Desktop Users: Outlook.com
April 8, 2014 [UPDATE 1/21/2017: This article is out of date and has been updated. Go to this new link] I’ve been recommending Exchange Server a while for 1MTD and MYN Outlook tasks users. That’s because by using Exchange Server with … Continue reading
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Sorting-Out Microsoft’s three Office Suites (Office Online, Office 365, and Office 2013)
Mar 2, 2014 [Updated Sept 28, 2015, to include Office 2016 and other updates] With the recent release of the “new” Office Online, there are now three current Office suites (the other two being Office 365 and Office 2013/16—I am … Continue reading
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“New” iPhone E-mail App that Converts Mail to Tasks
May 6, 2013 You know by now I am a fanatic about converting incoming e-mail action requests into tasks so that I can keep my to-dos well-tracked, properly prioritized, and under control. This also enables emptying the inbox daily. It … Continue reading
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Syncing Outlook Tasks with ToodleDo Using gSyncit (Part-1)
Dec 12, 2012 As you probably know, in the MYN/1MTD task systems I recommend using either of two Task Servers: Outlook/Exchange and ToodleDo. Each has its own advantages; and now you can access all the advantages by using both and … Continue reading
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Android Smartphone Task App Now Ready for MYN
October 29, 2011 I first looked at the Ultimate To-Do List for Android a year ago and couldn’t recommend it for our MYN task system because it lacked a reverse sort on start date. But two days ago the company … Continue reading
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Appa Mundi Tasks: a Windows Phone 7 Tasks App that Syncs with Exchange
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
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Converting E-mails to Tasks on a Mobile Device (with an Excerpt from the New Outlook Book’s 3rd Edition)
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
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