Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 650 EAN: 9780974930428 ISBN: 0974930423 Label: New Academy Publishers Manufacturer: New Academy Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 290 Publication Date: April 02, 2008 Publisher: New Academy Publishers Sales Rank: 4523 Studio: New Academy Publishers
Product DescriptionTotal Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook is a book for the over-extended office worker whose workday feels out of control. It shows how to regain command of an over-committed workday and an overflowing, unmanaged e-mail in box. It does this by teaching the author's system of time, task, and e-mail management, and it shows how to implement the system in Microsoft Outlook.
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Rating: - Decent but basic
If you've bought into the GTD way of task management, you may reach for this book to help you tame your email and to do lists with Outlook. The book definitely has lots of information in it and is a nice companion to the system. But overall, this is a very basic book on some Outlook features slightly tailored to GTD. If you know GTD and you're good at Outlook, then this book is very basic and almost useless. I was hoping for more of an advanced book which used the deep Outlook features in a very ... Read More
Rating: - Well thought out and effective approach
I'd been tinkering with Outlook for a while trying to use it to manage my email and scheduling, but it just seemed too complicated. Mr. Linenberger presents a well thought out, efficient and effective method for using Outlook that I easily adapted to my own needs.
The day I first started reading the book I set about cleaning out the 2000+ emails in my inbox, and after a day and a half my inbox was empty. More importantly, I have been able to maintain an empty inbox each day for the past three ... Read More
Rating: - One of the Best Email Solutions
I bought both Total Workday Control by Michael Linenberger and Take Back Your Life by Sally McGhee. They are both excellent. I prefer Total Workday Control. Like many people, I have too many top priority emails and tasks to ever complete. Michael's book provides a simple framework for quickly processing email and prioritizing the resulting tasks. He then describes his system for handling a high volume of tasks, so regardless of how many you complete, you always know what needs attention so you can ... Read More
Rating: - A good update to the original
I found this update version easier to used than the original. I use the ClearContext plug-in for Outlook.
Rating: - The system actually works!
It took me about 3 hours of reading the philosphy behind the system (this is important - don't skip it) and another 2 hours of setting up and tweaking Outlook. The first day or two afterwards were strange as I tried to get accustomed to the system, but now, after a few weeks, I couldn't live without it. It's not all about email management (that's a minor concern for me, although having a perfectly empty inbox is wonderful for your stress level) - it's really a great tool for managing the dozens of tasks ... Read More
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Books : Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook, 2nd Ed.
- Decent but basic
- Well thought out and effective approach
- A good update to the original