What are you using to track daily tasks?
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@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
Simple Outlook tasks is great.
Outlook and "Simple" never go together.
You're disdain for outlook is showing again.
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@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
Simple Outlook tasks is great.
Outlook and "Simple" never go together.
Tasks in Outlook can be simple is a matter of either flagging or completing and that's it.
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@dashrender said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
Simple Outlook tasks is great.
Outlook and "Simple" never go together.
You're disdain for outlook is showing again.
Love it or hate it, it's not simple. It's complex and requires special handling to be reliable.
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@dbeato said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
Simple Outlook tasks is great.
Outlook and "Simple" never go together.
Tasks in Outlook can be simple is a matter of either flagging or completing and that's it.
Tasks themselves can be simple, but Outlook is not.
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@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@dbeato said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
Simple Outlook tasks is great.
Outlook and "Simple" never go together.
Tasks in Outlook can be simple is a matter of either flagging or completing and that's it.
Tasks themselves can be simple, but Outlook is not.
Yeah, two different things.
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@dashrender said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
Simple Outlook tasks is great.
Outlook and "Simple" never go together.
You're disdain for bad products is showing again.
FTFY
If Outlook was simple and reliable, I'd be just fine with it.
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@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@dashrender said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
Simple Outlook tasks is great.
Outlook and "Simple" never go together.
You're disdain for bad products is showing again.
FTFY
If Outlook was simple and reliable, I'd be just fine with it.
I rarely have issues with Outlook. Granted years ago it used to be a bigger problem. And I'll admit I don't use OSTs (I know people have issues with those things too).
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@dashrender said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@dashrender said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
Simple Outlook tasks is great.
Outlook and "Simple" never go together.
You're disdain for bad products is showing again.
FTFY
If Outlook was simple and reliable, I'd be just fine with it.
I rarely have issues with Outlook. Granted years ago it used to be a bigger problem. And I'll admit I don't use OSTs (I know people have issues with those things too).
From an MSP side, Outlook seems to exist just to generate billable support hours. Don't get me wrong, it makes money for us like crazy, so I'm thankful for it from a business perspective. But I'd have to be pretty unethical to recommend it, because it just screws the customer and lines the hourly support IT pockets.
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@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@dashrender said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
Simple Outlook tasks is great.
Outlook and "Simple" never go together.
You're disdain for bad products is showing again.
FTFY
If Outlook was simple and reliable, I'd be just fine with it.
I'm quite happy with Outlook TASKS. I've tried a ton of other things and they are all WAY over complicated full-blown project management crap. Not what I want. Your view of Outlook Tasks is subjective.
It's fully copy/paste anything and everything into it and out of it, trackable, usable on any device with OWA, and there's a ton of features you can use that aren't shoved down your throat. It's simple and effective for daily/weekly/monthly task and simple project management tracking for yourself, and also some simple sharing and collaboration features if needed.
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I'm old school... I use sticky notes.... They're everywhere! It doesn't work, but it's what I use.
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@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@dashrender said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
Simple Outlook tasks is great.
Outlook and "Simple" never go together.
You're disdain for bad products is showing again.
FTFY
If Outlook was simple and reliable, I'd be just fine with it.
I'm quite happy with Outlook TASKS. I've tried a ton of other things and they are all WAY over complicated full-blown project management crap. Not what I want. Your view of Outlook Tasks is subjective.
Tasks is fine, it's all of the support needed to make it work. If they separated it out and it was its own, simple thing. Sure.
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@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
It's fully copy/paste anything and everything into it and out of it, trackable, usable on any device with OWA, ...
If you can use it with OWA, is it really Outlook Tasks? Now it is just Exchange Tasks, which I'm fine with if you don't have to install Outlook.
OWA / Exchange's task list is simple and easy.
See, Outlook is so complex, even conveying the tool you want to use isn't simple.
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Wunderlist is nice for just a simple task list. Google tasks isn't bad either.
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NextCloud has tasks, too. Very simple.
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@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
It's fully copy/paste anything and everything into it and out of it, trackable, usable on any device with OWA, ...
If you can use it with OWA, is it really Outlook Tasks? Now it is just Exchange Tasks, which I'm fine with if you don't have to install Outlook.
OWA / Exchange's task list is simple and easy.
See, Outlook is so complex, even conveying the tool you want to use isn't simple.
Yes, the URL says outlook.office365.com, and a button at the bottom says "Tasks"...
https://outlook.office365.com/owa/?path=/tasks
Also, the "O" in "OWA"... do you know what that stands for?
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@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
It's fully copy/paste anything and everything into it and out of it, trackable, usable on any device with OWA, ...
If you can use it with OWA, is it really Outlook Tasks? Now it is just Exchange Tasks, which I'm fine with if you don't have to install Outlook.
OWA / Exchange's task list is simple and easy.
See, Outlook is so complex, even conveying the tool you want to use isn't simple.
Yes, the URL says outlook.office365.com, and a button at the bottom says "Tasks"...
https://outlook.office365.com/owa/?path=/tasks
Also, the "O" in "OWA"... do you know what that stands for?
It stands for it, but it's not Outlook. It's part of Exchange, not part of Outlook.
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@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
It's fully copy/paste anything and everything into it and out of it, trackable, usable on any device with OWA, ...
If you can use it with OWA, is it really Outlook Tasks? Now it is just Exchange Tasks, which I'm fine with if you don't have to install Outlook.
OWA / Exchange's task list is simple and easy.
See, Outlook is so complex, even conveying the tool you want to use isn't simple.
I'm not sure what you're on about now? Exchange OWA is basically Outlook, only completely hosted. Very few things that Outlook can do that OWA can't (add-ons is a huge one, but I know of a few other smaller features (tasks related actually) that I do miss from OWA).
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@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
NextCloud has tasks, too. Very simple.
Yeah I just wish it had commenting
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@dashrender said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
It's fully copy/paste anything and everything into it and out of it, trackable, usable on any device with OWA, ...
If you can use it with OWA, is it really Outlook Tasks? Now it is just Exchange Tasks, which I'm fine with if you don't have to install Outlook.
OWA / Exchange's task list is simple and easy.
See, Outlook is so complex, even conveying the tool you want to use isn't simple.
I'm not sure what you're on about now? Exchange OWA is basically Outlook, only completely hosted. Very few things that Outlook can do that OWA can't (add-ons is a huge one, but I know of a few other smaller features (tasks related actually) that I do miss from OWA).
All besides the point, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:
It's fully copy/paste anything and everything into it and out of it, trackable, usable on any device with OWA, ...
If you can use it with OWA, is it really Outlook Tasks? Now it is just Exchange Tasks, which I'm fine with if you don't have to install Outlook.
OWA / Exchange's task list is simple and easy.
See, Outlook is so complex, even conveying the tool you want to use isn't simple.
Yes, the URL says outlook.office365.com, and a button at the bottom says "Tasks"...
https://outlook.office365.com/owa/?path=/tasks
Also, the "O" in "OWA"... do you know what that stands for?
It stands for it, but it's not Outlook. It's part of Exchange, not part of Outlook.
You said many years ago that locally installed Office is just a web app running locally... how does that make Outlook local any different from Outlook from Exchange? (sadly I do know the code base is different - see last post).
