Each Day Empty

Did you know that using a simple [w] in your emails can greatly improve the quality of your life? Read this step-by-step explanation for Microsoft Outlook to find out how this works exactly.

If you delegate, order, or ask anything by email, you can instruct Outlook to add that email to a Waiting For list, just by adding a simple [w] to the body of the email.

A [w] at the bottom of your email is so inconspicuous, that most people will not even notice it. However, it can be a powerful tool to keep your Waiting For list up to date and your mind at rest.

To enable this feature, we’ll have to create a new WaitingFor-Email folder and add a rule.

I copied this description from my webpage at http://waiting-for.com. I built that website to inform others about the [w] and encourage you to do the same if you want.

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Welcome to this weblog.

My name is Taco Oosterkamp and I’m fascinated by using Outlook in the context of Getting Things Done, the system for time and stress management that was developed by David Allen.

On this blog I’d like to share tips and tricks about setting up Microsoft Outlook for maximum productivity. I will take inspiration from both the Happy Outlook Book that I authored last year and the training courses that I develop and teach in the Netherlands.

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Enjoy! 
Taco

(And yes, that’s my real name and it has nothing to do with burritos :-))