Have you ever seen an email on your mobile phone and decided to look at it on your PC when you get into the office, only to find that you can't see the email in your Outlook Inbox? You check your phone again and there it...
When I talk to people about prioritising their workload or their time, I almost always use Stephen Covey's Time Management Matrix. It's been around a long time, but I love how it often reveals our inherent tendency to focus on urgent tasks at the expense...
If you use both Outlook tasks and OneNote 2016, you should be aware of a clever way in which you can select any text inside OneNote and have that text automatically appear as a new task inside Outlook. Better still, the new task is synced...
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In the past year, as many of us have been working from home, I've noticed more and more interest from people wanting to learn how to move to digital notetaking using Microsoft OneNote. OneNote is a great tool for taking notes in meetings, including online...
Everyone knows that you can record a Microsoft Teams meeting, right? But what happens when you finish your meeting and the recording does not appear in the meeting chat? It should be there! The meeting finished an hour ago but it is just not there....
Parkinson's Law Have you heard of Parkinson's Law? It is the adage that 'work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion', first articulated by British bureaucrat Cyril Northcote Parkinson. Or sometimes shortened to "Work expands to fill time". We see Parkinson's Law...
As we begin to emerge from eight months of restrictions in Victoria, organisations have changed and work now looks like a balanced arrangement between home and workplace, with in-office workspaces prioritised for those who need it most. COVID threw the cat amongst the pigeons and forced...
In May this year, I wrote an article titled 'Which Version of Microsoft OneNote should I use?' It captured a bit of attention and a few comments. One comment was a question from a reader (thanks Vince) who asked: 'Geoff, what are the advantages of...
By now, almost everyone who works in the Microsoft universe knows about Microsoft Teams. Since COVID-19 and the need to work from home, many organisations have turned to Teams as the 'go-to' platform for video meetings. Many organisations chose Teams as an alternative to Zoom...