Gerald Pogue mentioned at Ars Technica that Microsoft is gathering its feedback from Office 2004, which will eventually lead to the todo list for Office 12. With that in mind, I had a suggestion regarding one of my favorite features of Entourage 2004: the Project Center.
The Project Center is great. The way it integrates all your mail, tasks, notes and even external (and even non-Office) files in one place is a huge productivity boon. I've been setting up project centers at work for all sorts of ... umm, projects. I only have one problem with it. Every project I create is listed in the Project Center panel of the new Office toolbox. Right now, that's great. All the projects I have are integral to my current work situation. But I'm almost done with some of them. But I see no way to mark a project -- not individual portions, but the project itself -- as being "done." It seems that even when I've finished all my tasks and completed the project that it'll continue to be listed in the Project Center panel. Over the course of the next year, that panel is going to get very, very crowded. Why not just get rid of the project center item when I finish a project? Because I find the view so useful, and I often have to refer back to old projects, even though I'm going to add nothing to them. The way it collates email and particularly files (which are spread over my Mac, a server and dozens of directories) will make referring back to these project centers invaluable. The feature is too good to turn off just because a project is "done." But at the same time, I don't want to have to wade through an ever-increasing list in the project center panel's pop up selector. That will become unmanageable quite quickly. So what would be great would be a checkbox that lets me mark a project "done," thus removing it from the Project Center panel of the Office Toolbox, but still keeping it listed in the Entourage Project Center view. Can you see how this would be very helpful? If there's already a way to do this, I'd love to know. I've looked around, but I didn't see anything. If there isn't, then it's my top wish-list item for the next iteration of Entourage. Thanks for a great application. I can't wait to see what you all do with it next. Kirk -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
