From the course: Outlook: Time Management with Calendar and Tasks (2019)

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Capture time with Outlook

Capture time with Outlook

From the course: Outlook: Time Management with Calendar and Tasks (2019)

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Capture time with Outlook

- [Narrator] Remembering that we have three types of work: work that takes a long time, perhaps an hour or more, work that takes a relatively short period of time, five to 60 minutes, and work that takes less than five minutes. How do we deal with these in Outlook? Well in Outlook, that work that takes a long time, more than an hour, we are going to put on our calendar. Now remember that that threshold of more than an hour is a threshold that I'm proposing for myself for this course. If your threshold is longer than that, that's fine, but whatever your work assignments that take a long time, they belong on the calendar, and your work assignments that take a short period of time belong on your task list. I'm going to pause here and note that if you're a person who uses the calendar in Outlook and almost never uses tasks, I want to encourage you during the time you're working on this course to give tasks a try, and if you're a person who doesn't use the calendar that much but uses the…

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