@danem @manonstreet you touched here on the very use case I'm after. However, this thread looks rather old. I would love to hear back from you after all this time. I'm torn between taking the most pragmatic approach (danem) or get myself involved with what manonstreet suggested. I'm leaning towards danem's approach though, as I'm pretty snowed under... @danem, the way you wrote your response back then suggests that at some point you were also considering what manonstreet suggested but dropped it. Just wondering if that is the case, where are you nowadays and wether your system is now bulletproof.
Thanks On Friday, June 11, 2010 at 9:55:03 PM UTC+2, daneb wrote: > Hi, I would say, no easy way. I would recommend to copy to MLO only > the most important emails to answer (by dragging), and to put here > also other types of tasks stemming from emails, but to continue with > your system of flagging all other emails to answer only in Outlook. > You will have two systems for to-dos - one for everything else > +important emails, the second for other emails to answer (you can > batch this latter activity by actually having "email time" as to-do in > MLO). The most important law of time-management (after having studied > myrriads of PIM systems) I would recommend for all perfectionists as I > am is: tolerate two or more or otherwise imperfect and not connected > systems of PIMs and actually DO things, which is much much more > efficient than to spend/lose your time by creating one (impossible) > centralized perfect system. You will never be fully satisfied and you > will lose your time which you can use by DOING important tasks. > > Best > > Daneb > > On May 6, 7:10 pm, manonstreet <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm new to MLO and GTD in general so bear with me. > > > > > > I find myself using Outlook follow-up flags/categories on email > > messages as opposed to creating tasks of the message itself. This way > > I can respond to the message as I complete the requested item - > > instead of hunting for the original message so I can reply-all. > > However MLO syncing does not allow me to sync flagged messages, only > > true tasks (it would be great if I could sync flagged messages to MLO > > and embed the outlook hyperlink back to the original message). I also > > find it quite cumbersome to have to drag the email from Outlook to MLO > > to create the task. > > > > > > Does anyone have a good system which allows me to use MLO as my > > centralized task management, but still leverage Outlook's native > > follow-up capabilities? I'm trying to steer clear of a convoluted > > system, but rather focus on an easy and simplistic workflow. Any > > suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. > > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/e35f1823-a829-4e6b-a6aa-052f573a2208%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
