{"id":3450,"date":"2005-07-13T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kimiko-dreams.com\/items\/date\/2005\/07\/13\/gtd-setting-up-outlook\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T13:46:16","slug":"gtd-setting-up-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimiko-dreams-com.local\/2005\/07\/13\/gtd-setting-up-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"GTD: Setting up Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just started working out the best way to apply GTD. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found that Outlook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Task list is really useful once I configured it and learned how to work it. It took me a little while to figure out the best way to VIEW it but here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I came up with. Some varying may be helpful to you depending.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Veiws: You can manage your views by going to View, Arrange by, Define Views, Create or Modify and existing view.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My_view (create your own personal view by doing above then using or these parameters. I took the default on all other settings but some modification can be made for what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s useful to you)<\/p>\n<p>\nFields: Icon, Priority, Attachment, Subject, Status, Due Date, Actual Work, % Complete, Categories, Complete, Recurring<br \/>\nGroup By: Due Date (decending)<br \/>\nSort: Recurring (descending), Complete (ascending), Due Date (descending), Priority (descending)<br \/>\nFilter: Tasks: Advanced = Due Date (today), Due Date (in the next 7 days) Due Date (does not exist), Status (Not Started), Status (In progress), Status (Waiting), Status (Deferred)<\/p>\n<p>All other options are default.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The only other views I use are Completed and Overdue (though the other views could be helpful)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOverdue: <br \/>\nGroup by: Due Date (Decending)<br \/>\nSort:  Due Date (desc), Priority (desc)<br \/>\nFilter: Tasks:Advanced &#8211; Complete = no, Due Date &#8211; on or before yesterday<\/p>\n<p>Completed:<br \/>\nGroup by: None<br \/>\nSort: Date Completed (desc)<br \/>\nFilter: Tasks: Status Completed\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again the other views can be useful AND modified to make things that are important to you easier. The above is what works for me.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also come to find that because of the way my brain works I often start a task and realize that there are a few other tasks I need to do before I can actually start it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s helped me realize I need to set aside time to double check my task items and make sure they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to be broken down any further in order to be done.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Example: Pick up prescription.<br \/>\nI might not have thought about it but when I do I realize I need to:<\/p>\n<p>Call Dr to phone it into pharmacy<br \/>\nCheck pharm that they received presc.<br \/>\nCheck prescription ready to be picked up.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of you who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing GTD for a while you probably already know this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but for those of you who want to electronically keep track of what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done for the day, you end up adding tasks and then checking them off AFTER you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done them.  <\/p>\n<p>\nHope that some of this is useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just started working out the best way to apply GTD. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found that Outlook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Task list is really useful once I configured it and learned how to work it. It took me a little while to figure out the best way to VIEW it but here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I came up with. Some varying may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimiko-dreams-com.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimiko-dreams-com.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimiko-dreams-com.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimiko-dreams-com.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimiko-dreams-com.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimiko-dreams-com.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimiko-dreams-com.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimiko-dreams-com.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimiko-dreams-com.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}