Archive for September, 2005

Managing Projects and Tasks in Microsoft Outlook

Friday, September 16th, 2005

I’m a book editor by day and a writer and programmer by night, which means I have dozens of projects going at any one time, and numerous tasks for each project. I’ve been looking for a way to manage all that and have finally figured out a system (using Microsoft Outlook) that seems to work. Hoping others might find my system useful, I decided to pass it on in this newsletter. Here’s the procedure (which is not as complicated as it looks with all this explanation):

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Divide and Conquer, Part 2

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

In our last issue, I wrote about increasing editorial efficiency by fixing one kind of problem at a time. This raises (*not* “begs”) the question, “What kinds of problems lend themselves to this approach?” Some possibilities for your consideration:

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