If you are like me, you somewhat despise Outlook’s default task list entry method. It is slow, confusing and difficult to quickly add new tasks. As such, it’s easy to forget what tasks you were going to record before you finish recording them . Michael Sippey has created a streamlined task entry form for Outlook you can use to quickly and easily add your tasks and even tag them Ala Web 2.0
“Through the magic of Outlook and customizable forms, I’ve hacked Outlook’s default task entry form down to the bare essentials: the task, tags on the task, and its priority. I’ve saved this as my default form for the “Tasks” folder in Outlook, muscle-memorized CTRL+SHIFT-K, and voila: super fast and easy task entry.
One of the most underappreciated aspects of Outlook is its “Categories” feature, which has both an overdesigned popup with embedded checkboxes, and a free form text entry field. The free form one takes comma delimited words and turns them into individual categories. For my implementation I pumped up the font sizes, and sexed up the word “Categories” by renaming it “Tags” to give my Outlook install just a bit of Web 2.0 cred. (Next up, yellow fade!)”
You can download it free here. via Lifehacker
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