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Take Back Your Life! Special Edition: Using Microsoft® Outlook® to Get Organized and Stay Organized (Bpg-Other)
by Sally McGhee
from Microsoft Press

Features:

• Special Edition

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• If you're a GTDer and use Outlook at work, read this book
  The TBYL book was a real eye opener and the solution to my constant frustration with trying to tame my email and stay organized at work. Like so many others, I first read Getting Things Done by David Allen. Allen's book provides you with the whole GTD concept but it fell short for me on implementation of GTD. Along came the answer, Sally McGhee's book on Take Back Your Life! It provided the level of detail I craved on how to make GTD work for me using the one and only tool I was already using at... more info

• Take Back Your Time
  To summarize, Take Back Your Life (TBYL) is a derivative work - basically a loosely-gathered compilation of ideas and techniques ranging from the David Allen to the Stephen Covey. It may be useful for people looking for a friendly, lightweight, introductory text to personal information management (PIM) centered on Outlook. Check it out at a library or bookstore first to avoid disappointment. One bright spot is that is does have a CD with an digital version of OneNote 2003 Step-by-Step, links to web... more info

• Taking Back My Life
  Take Back Your Life!: Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to Get Organized and Stay Organized
  This is a great buy (either edition)

• Author completely misses Outlook's powerful heirarchical capabilities.
  The result of using Outlook the way this author recommends is that you'll essentially have two separate lists: one list of all your projects and another list of all your "next actions". Since you'll be able to sort your next-action list according to the context in which each action will be done, this arrangement is better than nothing. But the problem with this arrangement is that with it, Outlook maintains neither project-to-next-actions connections nor next-actions-to-project connections. The author would... more info

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