Tech site the How-To Geek puts Microsoft Outlook 2007′s To-Do Bar through the paces, demonstrating how to create, categorise, complete, organise, and flag tasks using it. I haven’t used Outlook on a daily basis since my escape to the freelance life, but most people with office jobs live in it. Are you using Outlook’s To-Do manager to GTD? What do you love or hate about it? Let us know in the comments.
Using the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar [the How-To Geek]It’s no wonder the majority of Lifehacker readers voted Remember the Milk the best web-based task manager out there. Remember the Milk‘s got all the best features modern webapps have to offer: email/SMS/IM integration, tagging, advanced search, keyboard shortcuts and even offline access with Google Gears. Chances are you work across several computers and need a single, always-accessible place to consolidate your work, personal, school, and family to-do’s. Remember the Milk is a great way to do just that. Let’s take a closer look at Remember the Milk’s basic and more advanced features.
Instantly share files, notes, and photos with Stixy, an online bulletin board web application. An information manager at its core, Stixy gives you plenty of control over tasks, appointments, photos, notes, and bookmarks, and you can share your bulletin board with family and friends. There is no limitation on the size of a workspace but each file is capped at 10MB. Also, for now, there’s no way to view many files (PDFs, DOCs, videos) without downloading them locally—but hopefully they’ll implement functionality to support accessing these files server-side. However, for collaboration, Stixy makes it easy to share many files and store files online.
StixyEver since Apple released the iPod Touch, they’ve removed essential features, rendering it less versatile than the famous iPhone. Creative thinker Travis shows that you can still manage appointments and assignments using your nifty little MP3 player, as long as you’re not using your Contacts application. In this video, Travis walks us through assigning each field in the Contacts utility to make a functional to-do list. It certainly isn’t as good as the event manager in the iPhone’s Calendar app, but it comes pretty close.
