Download link for brand new 1MTD 2nd Edition, PDF copy (free)
May 4, 2017 As I promised last week, here is the download link for my brand new second edition of The One Minute To-Do List (1MTD) book, PDF copy. As usual, this is a free download; so help yourself....
View ArticleUsing Critical Now on Really Busy Days
May 6, 2017 As you know in all my books I teach a pretty firm rule about keeping the Critical Now section at 5 or fewer items. Well, I received a sincere question from a dedicated 1MTD user who asked...
View ArticleNew Edition 5 Upgrade Paths
May 12, 2017 We just released Edition 5 of the book Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook. See more details here: http://www.michaellinenberger.com/NewsletterMay12-17.html Upgrade Paths: We...
View ArticleMultiple Ways to Convert E-Mails to Tasks (Windows Outlook)
June 3, 2017 Key to both my MYN and 1MTD systems is converting e-mails to tasks. It’s the main way to get control of your Inbox. In Windows desktop Outlook, the primary way to convert e-mails to true...
View ArticleTouchdown App Being Phased Out by Symantec
July 16, 2017 The Android and iPhone app Touchdown has been officially sunsetted by Symantec. More information here:...
View ArticleTo-Do List Nightmares
September 11, 2017 I am just wrapping up a huge project: the building of my new house. I just moved in and am getting the loose ends wrapped up. This project has taught me lessons on the importance of...
View ArticleCouple Quick Videos Introducing 1MTD and MYN
Sept 20, 2017 If you have friends who need a quick overview of 1MTD or MYN, here are a couple quick videos that you might want to pass to them. This is an animation that encourage people to try 1MTD....
View ArticleAsking a Favor
Sep 20, 2017 I have a favor to ask of my regular readers. Someone left a nasty review for my Outlook book on Amazon, and for some reason it is sitting right at the top of the featured reviews list, in...
View ArticleOutlook Tips from a Reader
Sep. 24, 2017 Reader David Morrison sent me the following Windows Outlook tips, which I have copied word for word below. And one of them I will write about separately later. Thanks David! From David:...
View ArticleReview of Note Taking Apps
Someone sent me this link and it looks like a good comparison review of note-taking apps (OneNote, Evernote, Google Keep), so thought I’d pass it on. https://www.cloudwards.net/best-note-taking-apps/...
View Article2 Videos Updated in the 1MPM Video Class
Oct 20, 2017 If you own the One Minute Project Management video class, (1MPM), we’ve just updated the two Toodledo videos. So the fifth video and the eleventh video in the class are updated as of...
View ArticleChanging Views in Windows Outlook To-Do Bar
Nov 9, 2017 [Note: this article is presented in new Video #30 just added to the MYN Outlook 365 Complete Video Training.] One of the great things about Windows Outlook is the ability to save and...
View ArticleProblems in a New Release of Outlook 2016, And a Fix
Nov 9, 2017 For those of you that subscribe to Office 365, you know that you can receive updates to Office with new features quite regularly—it’s one of the advantages to that subscription. But it can...
View ArticleHow to Influence Outlook’s Design
Nov 10, 2017 Microsoft is constantly changing desktop Outlook, usually for better but occasionally for worse (one unfortunate change from October is mentioned here). But what many don’t know is that...
View ArticleMy Current Laptop Choice: Dell XPS 13, late 2017 model
Nov 17, 2017 In the months before Christmas each year I often report on my current laptop choice for productive travel work, and here’s this year’s choice: the brand new late-2017 release of the Dell...
View ArticleOutlook 2016 Archive Button—Can’t Change Target Folder Now
Nov 27, 2017 In my June 6, 2017 newsletter I discussed using the Archive folder and button that Microsoft added to Outlook 2016. I also wrote about it in the 5th Edition of my Outlook book. In both...
View ArticleConvert Emails to Tasks to Prevent Aimless Work
Nov 30, 2017 There is something that is almost as bad as goofing off at work, and it’s called Aimless Work. That’s when you work on whatever is in front of you at the moment instead of prioritizing...
View ArticleNewer PDF copy of Outlook Book Ed. 5 posted
Dec 8, 2017 I just posted a newer PDF version of Edition 5 of Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook on the book sale site and the MYN Outlook 365 Video site. There are 15 to 20 text updates...
View ArticleThe Impermanence of Goals
Dec 21, 2017 It’s that time of year again when you’re going to start seeing a lot of articles and advertisements about how you should be setting and achieving your goals. And you’ll probably be feeling...
View ArticleView Settings menus Are Back in Outlook!
December 27, 2017 in a previous blog I had complained that Microsoft accidentally removed the View Settings menu from the right-click menu in the Outlook To-Do Bar task list in a new update to Windows...
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