Tool Review #3: Reshma’s Outlook Tasks–Make It Work For You!

Tool Review #3: Reshma’s Outlook Tasks–Make It Work For You!

Even though I happen to be an avid Outlook Tasks user myself, this feature is not for the faint of heart: slightly too complicated, doesn’t sync well to gadgets, and has some serious formatting limitations. In fact, we almost broke up last month when I met Workflowy....
Tool Review #1: Remember the. . . Milk! Valerie’s To-Do’s Tour

Tool Review #1: Remember the. . . Milk! Valerie’s To-Do’s Tour

Welcome to a brief summer organization tool review series! I’ve come across several new and old productivity tools in the past few months, and I can’t wait to show them to you. Summer is a great time to bolster your habits AND to be sure you have selected the right...
Cara’s Transformation: Whiteboard to Weekly Worksheet

Cara’s Transformation: Whiteboard to Weekly Worksheet

I met Cara at a recent Together Training in DC. She’s an Achievement Coordinator and the mom of an about-to-finish-high-school kid! Cara entered the training as an already very organized thinker, but she had a few challenges with her organizational tool of choice –...
Total System Tour: Susan’s Adult Trapper Keeper

Total System Tour: Susan’s Adult Trapper Keeper

Our past blog posts on complete and total systems, like Michelle’s Arc Notebook and Sarah’s clipboarded iPad Mini, tend to be very popular. So here’s another one, people! This time, we’re learning from Susan, a Research Fellow and former PhD student. Translation: she...
Outlook Tasks: A Teacher’s Best Friend

Outlook Tasks: A Teacher’s Best Friend

Today we have a guest post from one of my favorite Outlook gurus —Pam Bookbinder! You can read more about Pam at the end of the blog entry! _________________________________________________________________________ You know the saying, “diamonds are a girl’s best...