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Subject:RE: Your To-Do List From:"Tariel, Lauren R" <lt34 -at- saclink -dot- csus -dot- edu> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:37:04 -0800
Personally I don't use "to-do" lists and I barely use calendars. My dad tells me to use a bright yellow legal-sized notepad, but he's a little old school. I've had co-workers and managers use applications to schedule meetings with me, but I really don't get into that stuff.
If Outlook won't do it for you, you can try writing your own program in Access and then put the program in your start-up folder with alarms, message boxes, and such to keep you really annoyed about what to do. I wrote a scheduler in Access for some sort of database management "to-do" list that a co-worker wanted. The calendar is just a table with fields for date, task, message, and completed and there isn't a pretty calendar interface to it because "real" work became available. My scheduler checks for database size and due tasks, then it pops up a message box with its findings and there is also a task list. If you like programming whacked code, then you can try playing with Access, its version of SQL, and Access-VBA.
Lauren
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Sent: Wed 1/10/2007 8:36 AM
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Subject: Your To-Do List
What do you use to handle your ongoing to-do list? I want to find a
program that does these things:
1. Relates the list to a daily calendar. Ideally, I'd like to have this
calendar start up automatically, so as soon as I log in, it opens and
displays the current day's list.
2. Carries forward all tasks from the previous day that I haven't marked
as complete.
3. Keeps a historic record of each day's tasks, so I can see what I was
doing a year and a day ago if I want.
4. Enables me to print out the to-do lists for a range of days (or months).
5. In the best of all possible worlds, enables me to link to my address
book, the emails I've received and sent for a particular day, and notes
(for a day, a task, whatever).
I've been using an elderly copy of Mozilla, a relic of my desire to give
Microsoft a wide berth. At this point, I'm desperate to get my calendar
and tasks coordinated, and I'll bow to Microsoft if Outlook or some
other product is the best for the purpose. (I will say that I tried to
use the Outlook feature at my last job and found it odd. Hard to read,
obscure procedures. But maybe I just didn't learn it well enough.)
I have GOT to get my s--t together. Thanks for all help.
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