Earth 2 Adam

You remember when the Wizard of Oz said “Go away and come back tomorrow”? Well, that is exactly what a Tickler File lets you say to your email, “Go away and don’t bother me until you are actionable!” And you would use this for what?

• Your phone bill arrives on the 1st… but it’s not due until the 30th.
  (”Go away and come back on the 25th”).
• The latest cost reports arrive… on Friday
  (”Go away and come back next week”).
• There’s a sale at Penny’s!!!!
  (”Go a away and… DELETE“)

But one of the most useful things you can do with this is track the actions you have assigned to other people. (more…)

So what’s the big deal with links? Think of a link as being the sticky side of a Post-It note. This is the glue that holds information together. Only it’s not just notes scribbled on little yellow bits of paper. In Entourage, you can link tasks to email, email to contacts, contacts to projects, projects to files, files to notes, notes to tasks… Gadzooks, man!

But for all that power, the system is yet incomplete. Because while Entourage will let you link anything to anything, it doesn’t provide a keyboard shortcut so that you can quickly retrieve the data! Don’t all gasp at once. (more…)