On Monday 09 April 2007, PJH wrote: > I have heard all the arguments as to why no one needs > Outlook, but last night, my niece, a very smart person > (full scholarship to MIT, MSCompSci at Berkeley paid for > by Bell Labs, etc.) gave me her reasons for using > Outlook. > > I'm going to quote her message to me and I'd like to get > reasonable responses. > > "The main reason Outlook is my choice is its integration > of calendar, contacts, e-mails, documents, and tasks > (to-dos). You can create a task and attach to it any > relevant information including documents, e-mails, > contact info for people involved, links, etc. When > you’re ready to schedule the task, you can drag and drop > it right into your calendar. When you go to do the task > (either from your calendar or a task list), everything > you need to accomplish it is right there in front of you. > > "As an example, we [my niece runs a small consulting > business] are looking to hire a web designer. My > business partner has sent out a request for > recommendations and has been forwarding me the e-mails > that look worth following up on. I’ve promised her that > tomorrow I’ll check out a certain particularly promising > web designer. The action is scheduled in my calendar, > with all my partner’s web designer e-mails attached. > When I go to check out the designer’s previous works, all > the links are right there in her e-mail; when I’m ready > to call her, her contact info is there. When I’m done > checking her out, if I want to follow up with some of the > other designers, I can just copy the task to my task list > or to a future time slot in my calendar, because all the > e-mails from the other designers are also attached to the > current task. > > "Pre-Outlook, I would have seen in my Palm calendar that > it was time to check out the web designer. Then I’d have > had to go to my e-mail and search for the e-mail my > partner had forwarded to me from that particular > designer, to follow the links and contact her. When I > was ready to check out additional designers, I’d have had > to go find all those individual e-mails to decide which > ones to check out first. That’s a particularly simple > example, because it includes only e-mails, but you could > imagine if there were also documents I needed to check, > and contact info to look up, how much easier it would be > if it was all in one place, right there in my calendar. > “It’s 10:00 – here’s what you need to do, and everything > you need to do it.” I can go straight into action, > without all that hidden un-planned-for prep time it used > to require." > > Doesn't that sound like something we'd all like to be > able to do?
That is another reason to move to Linux because there is more than one package in Linux that will do that. Check out Kontact or from what I have heard Evolution. The programers at OOo could figure out a way to blend OOo to work with these packages, you will have the full package that MS offers and without all their garbage. -- If the word following begins with a vowel, the word you want is... to read the rest of this, go here http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/a.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
