{"id":3283,"date":"2015-07-31T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2015-09-08T08:29:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:29:15","slug":"outlook-users-consider-switching-to-toodledo-to-solve-smartphone-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/outlook-users-consider-switching-to-toodledo-to-solve-smartphone-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook Users: Consider Switching to Toodledo to Solve Smartphone Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>July 31, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As more and more people are processing most of their e-mail and tasks on their smartphones, many of the <a href=\"http:\/\/michaellinenberger.com\/1MTDvsMYN.html\">1MTD and MYN<\/a> system principles are getting harder to accomplish for Outlook users. Many of the tools we are accustomed to in a desktop copy of Outlook just aren\u2019t there on our smartphones.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/michaellinenberger.com\/images\/toodledo-logo-2015.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"71\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is complicated by the fact that many large corporations are locking down their employees\u2019 smartphones and not allowing installed third-party apps to have access to their Exchange Server. So while you can install some apps that might provide the solutions you need, they won\u2019t work for you if they can\u2019t reach your servers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Switch to Toodledo?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One solution that you should seriously consider now is to stop using the Outlook tasks module and start using <a href=\"http:\/\/michaellinenberger.com\/ToodleDo.html\">Toodledo<\/a> for tasks. Here are some advantages of Toodledo for a heavy smartphone e-mail user:\u00a0\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Toodledo company has excellent task management apps for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toodledo.com\/info\/iphone.php\">iPhone<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toodledo.com\/info\/android.php\">Android<\/a> platforms that configure well for 1MTD and MYN. And a wide range of third-party apps also sync with Toodledo servers\u2014those servers have become a standard for cloud-based task management on smartphones.<\/li>\n<li>Tasks are stored on Toodledo\u2019s (Amazon-based) servers and so smartphone and web access is normally not blocked by standard corporate protection systems. Toodledo software also have encryption options for security.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It is very easy to convert e-mails on your smartphone<\/strong> (or desktop) into Toodledo tasks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/converting-e-mails-to-tasks-in-toodledo\/\">by simply forwarding them<\/a>. So it works with <em>any<\/em> e-mail system on <em>any<\/em> device. This solves a common problem of reading a smartphone e-mail but, since you&#8217;re not able to convert it to a task in the moment, you lose track of it.<\/li>\n<li>If you use a Mac, you\u2019ll find that Toodledo\u2019s task module is much better than the Mac-Outlook task module.<\/li>\n<li>Toodledo\u2019s task module is even better than the Windows Outlook task module in some ways. For example, it supports due dates correctly.<\/li>\n<li>Toodledo\u2019s browser app is excellent for managing 1MTD and MYN tasks, and has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/toodledos-new-myn-preconfigured-account-capability\/\">one-step MYN configuration command<\/a> built in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The disadvantage of using Toodledo for tasks, of course, is that your task module is no longer visible right next to your e-mail, as it is when using the Windows Outlook To-Do bar. But if you are reading the vast majority of your email on your smartphone, that doesn\u2019t really matter does it? [See other disadvantages in my note in the comments section below]<\/p>\n<p>As you probably know, Toodledo is the only other task module (other than Outlook) that I actively support. I have a full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/FullTD-MYN.html\">video class<\/a> on how to use Toodledo with MYN, and I keep that class as up-to-date as I keep the Outlook class. I personally used the Toodledo software for about two years as my primary task management system, and I loved it. You can of course continue to use Outlook for managing e-mail, calendar, and contacts, and just switch your <em>task<\/em> management to Toodledo&#8212;that&#8217;s what I did for a few years.<\/p>\n<p>So if you\u2019re finding yourself reading and processing your emails mostly on your smartphone, perhaps now is the time to switch over to Toodledo.<\/p>\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 31, 2015 As more and more people are processing most of their e-mail and tasks on their smartphones, many of the 1MTD and MYN system principles are getting harder to accomplish for Outlook users. Many of the tools we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/outlook-users-consider-switching-to-toodledo-to-solve-smartphone-issues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}