My question about removing Mail Views, and the strong responses it got, has made me think once again how valuable an in-depth class on �How to Use Entourage to Run Your Business & Life� would be.
Seriously, I would fly across the country to take a weekend workshop by someone who has figured out a way to use Entourage as the main Control Center of their business. Entourage is already this for my own biz and life, and hell, I think ( I thought!) I use it well. I�m very organized, and E'rage really helps me make a good income; yet as you saw, I don�t even use one of its best features. And, I still haven�t quite figured out how to integrate Projects, which in my guesstimate, would make me even more income and even more organized. I used to be a complete Franklin Planner fan. Their system and planner and workshops were, for 12 years, the �Control Center� of my business and life. I think what has happened is that Entourage has taken a huge number of their customers as more and more Mac users have moved to the digital version of a daily planner. But Franklin taught classes. They knew that a fancy day planner by itself wouldn�t achieve results. People had to learn how to use it. Franklin, unfortunately, chose to leave the Macintosh folks out of the picture, so their workshops are worthless to the millions of us who use OSX. I hope this plants some seed in someone�s brain out there. This How to Use Entourage to Run Your Business and Life would sell like hot cakes. It might even be better to sell it as a well-designed set of DVDs. That way, the content can be much more controlled and much more organized. And, the end user could pause at any point and switch to Entourage to try out what was just being taught. I may be too dumb to figure out the Mail View option, but I actually do this sort of thing as my business. I write how-to books and eBooks for a living, and have for the last 12 years. I�m passionate about taking complex topics and making the light bulb go on in people�s head. That�s why I see such a need here for Entourage. Entourage is a better, modern version of the Franklin Day Planner. I don�t know if any of the how-to Mac authors that I admire, like Deb Shadovtz, or David Pogue, or Joe Kissell, or Tom Negrino, read this list. If you do, whew, I think this is a gold mind. Simply create an outline of what you already do with Entourage in your life, and record it on DVD. Walk us entrepreneurs�and anyone who wants to organize their life�through the steps of using Entourage as the control center for their work and life. To give you an example: I just paid $499 for a set of DVDs that walks me through the process of how to use GoogleAds to increase sales. I�m already seeing the value of that money spent. If you make it, they will come! And I�ll help market the hell out of it. sequoia > On 2/12/05 3:00 PM, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 08:26:02 -0800 >> Subject: Re: Mail Views: A way to remove the whole folder? >> >> On 2/12/05 7:50 AM, "sequoia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> > In Entourage 2004, is there a way to completely remove the �Mail Views� >>> > folder there at the bottom of the left hand Folder list? I don�t ever deal >>> > with my email other than via the InBox. >>> > >>> > A small thing, but I thought I�d ask. >> >> It's not a mail folder. It's the place, the ONLY place, where all mail >> custom views, are found. Since 2004 introduced Projects, the former "Custom >> Views" area (the 6th area icon at the top left of the main window) has been >> replaced by the Projects Center. That area also contains "mixed views" but >> no longer single-item views. Each area - not only Mail, but also Address >> Book, Calendar, Tasks, and Notes - has its own subsection for custom views. >> >> You can delete all the built-in custom views within the Mail Views sector, >> if you're determined to do so. Just control-click on the offending view icon >> and select Delete. (You may be sorry some day. Why not just keep it closed?) >> But no, you can't delete the sector any more than you can delete the Address >> Book if you don't use it either, or Project Center. They're all part of >> Entourage, whether you make use of them or not. Some day, when you've done a >> certain type of Advanced Find for the umpteenth time, you might discover >> that it would save you LOTS of trouble to save the criteria as a Custom >> View. That's all a custom view is - a saved Advanced Find set of criteria. >> They're not gong to hurt you. >> -- >> Paul Berkowitz > -- 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/>
