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Outliners.com Message ID: 4087
Posted by sub
2005-09-06 03:29:04
(I thought I’d write a short note on the subjects this discussion list is concerned with, to get yesterday’s spammed page out of our sight).
It’s been now about a week since I started using my new time/action management system which is centered around Outlook. Overall, my impressions are quite positive.
I was worried about synchronisation as I work on three separate computers (two offices plus home) and am about to purchase a fourth (notebook). OutlookSync by Curosoft has taken care of that with no glitches as far as I can tell; at $25 per user license (not per machine) I think it’s worth it.
DateLens, which was my calendar of choice, has rather disappointed me. The Outlook plug-in I use is a freeware version of a commercial program developed for PDAs. The PDA version may be great but the one I use is practically non-customisable and has a day view which fails to display the whole day. I find myself resorting to the “Outlook Today” summary view more and more often. DateLens is still much better for viewing months though. In Outlook 2000 it appears as an extra toolbar icon, whereas in Outlook 2003 it can be run independently.
The Outlook YearView plug-in works as it’s supposed to; if my partners adopt it, we could switch to a corporate license which provides publishing features.
The combination of Brainstorm, MindManager and JVCGantt Pro works perfectly with tasks easily shared with Outlook.
Now that I’m not worried about forgetting something off my task list, I have to deal with the actual task (action) management! TimeTo, a program suggested by Graham is excellent—notwithstanding its trouble with Greek- but I will wait until it integrates with Outlook to purchase it. For the moment though, I think I’ll stick to my morning prioritisation.
alx