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I am one those people...

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I am one those people...

I am one those people Mark B. mentions. I used to schedule work blocks in Outlook and it didn’t work for me. The nature of my work is that I get interrupted a lot. Therefore, I might block off the entire morning to work on a particular web project, but get interrupted (by things that are also part of my duties) and not get the project done. I absolutely hated having to move projects to the afternoon or next day. Now I put Next Actions in my tasklist, with due dates where necessary (these become highlighted if not completed on the date assigned and are a mild “nag” that way), and just calendar things like meetings and appointments. Also, I don’t put every single Next Action on the Outlook task list. I used to do that, too, but it just overwhelmed me looking at it. I put a handful of Next Actions there and can just refill when necessary from my Next Actions list, kept in a Word file.

To-Done: Scheduling tasks By: Merlin Mann (27 replies) August 18, 2005 - 4:09am
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