Living in Outlook: Multi-Day Calendar Views

Responding to all those guys who want a logging tool that is a little more intelligent than the Journal....there would be a great place to look for the outlook team on "RescueTime". Its a neat little program that logs your computer use and sends it to someplace on the web to be categorized...you then can look and see how you are using your time.... This is NOT an alternative to the Journal right now....but the way it works is really cool, and is something like how the journal COULD work to make it more effective. Just thought you guys might like some inspiration. Mick

Don – Something else you might want to look into is the integration between OneNote and Outlook. For example, you can flag things in OneNote and those items will appear in Outlook’s task list. Tom O'Neill, Outlook Program Manager

Don, you read my mind. You're asking exactly the same thing that I'm looking for in Outlook.

I live in Outlook and use it not only book appointment in my future, but record what I have done in the past. One annoying thing that I would love to solve is avoid having the appointment reminder pop up each time I enter an "appointment" in the past. Can that be done?

Has anyone tried to UNDO a meeting cancellation? I tried to reschedule a single occurrence of a recurring meeting - (at first) couldn't find a suitable new day/time - opted to cancel the occurrence -- THEN saw a possible new day/time. Can a person get OUT of the Meeting Cancellation mode...to then reschedule?

As an enthusiast of the subject time management, I´ve already read a lot and tried to implement some alternatives to deal with this daily challenge. The modell that best suited for me works with importance levels and priorities for the tasks and appointments. Basically, the tasks/calendar events must be executed in order of importance and then priority. This way, it can be assured that the effort is applied in the best sequence to achieve desired goals. There´s an issue to apply this method that I didn´t solve yet. In order to plan the days, I schedule the tasks and events in such a way that a day (working time) has no more than 6 planned hours. Here comes the problem. As I schedule the tasks, I need to know how much hours are already planned for that day. That includes not only the tasks, but also the calendar events. In a nutshell, it would be optimal if Outlook summarized all the tasks and events in only one view and also summed up the planned hours for that day (e.g. similar to the “ count function” for the items in the group title of a view). Does anyone have a clue of how to implement this idea in a folder view (Outlook 2003)? Today I use an extra software to sum up my daily planned hours. And you know, this just kills the ergonomy. Thanks for your time, I´d be pleased for a feedback! Best Regards, Rafael.

Don - with regard to not having yet nade a spreadsheet to add the figures up, it's a simple drag and drop to Excel. Select the section of Journal you want to add (from a tbale view), drag to Excel, drop. Sum the column that has the durations in it. Save or ditch the spreadsheet. Approx. 6 seconds! Faster than trying to add 72 and 11 and 35 in my head!

I like being able to see two works weeks at a time so this is great. However, I'd also like to be able to print both work weeks on the same sheet of paper. Does anyone know how to do this?

Great one, thanks for that. Does any of you know how to get a view "today and the next 5 days" saved? Would save some clicking :-)