I have MS Office Pro Plus 2010 at work, and I haven't used Office before. After using Gmail exclusively for a number of years, and never any scheduling tools beyond what came on my Droid from Verizon, I'm looking for ways to better utilize the email, organizational and time management options I have. I recently learned about flags and
conversation view from a co-worker, but I feel like there are more features I should be using.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Apr 1, 2013 -
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I go dancing at event weekends where there is fun stuff happening 20 hrs/day. I want to do all the things, but if I try, I wind up exhausted by day 3. How do I keep myself on track for basic functions like eating and sleeping while doing as many fun things as possible?
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posted by tangaroo
on Feb 26, 2013 -
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I need to schedule a lot of sequential tasks that have a set time limit (ie, Task A is allotted one week, Task B one week, Task C three weeks). Unfortunately some of these tasks run over (or occasionally, under) budget on time and I am looking for a program that will easily reassign due dates for all the following tasks when one task falls off the original schedule.
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posted by apparently
on Feb 22, 2013 -
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I have several different calendar accounts that I use on my iPhone, 1 personal Google Calendar, an Exchange account for my primary job, and another GCal that my part time job uses to dispatch technician jobs to me. My part time job uses this calendar to schedule calls, so as it stands now I have to manually block out anything that I schedule on my other calendars so that they don't double book me.
How can I create a setup where if I enter something on one of my calendars it will mark me as busy during that time? I don't want to have to create every event 3 times, and I don't want full synchronization as I don't want personal details and business information where other people can see it.
posted by daHIFI
on Feb 6, 2013 -
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How do you make yourself go to sleep/do errands/be a grown-up when you have no responsibilities or schedule you need to keep? When I hear people say they loved a show and watched 3 episodes before bed because they had to work the next morning I laugh because if I love a show I might watch 10 episodes because I can.
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posted by Bunglegirl
on Jan 31, 2013 -
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Does-this-exist-filter: easy-to-use employee scheduler for Mac (OS 10.7.4), does not have high ongoing cost?
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posted by charmedimsure
on Nov 19, 2012 -
4 answers
Launching a freelance career, starting a training program and planning a wedding. Please help me get organized before my life spins out of control.
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posted by ladybird
on Oct 2, 2012 -
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Looking for software/service that will let us publish an event's schedule to mobile devices. Difficulty: the schedule isn't decided until the morning of the event.
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posted by Wild_Eep
on Sep 10, 2012 -
7 answers
I don't understand how people with homes, jobs, kids, families, hobbies, televisions and pets DO everything. What am I doing wrong? Help me make the most of every minute!
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posted by thrasher
on Aug 7, 2012 -
53 answers
SchedulingFilter: We have five widgets and ten people who want to use them. How do we keep track of who's using a widget and which ones are checked out?
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posted by 23
on Aug 5, 2012 -
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I'm in need of client and accounts management software that is suited to newspaper (or at least publications) operations. It needs to be free or very inexpensive, web-based, and user friendly.
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posted by LillyBird
on Aug 2, 2012 -
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Trying to pipe individual lines from a big text file through to twitter, at scheduled times.
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posted by roobot
on Jul 7, 2012 -
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I've been failing on getting some friends to go out and do stuff with me, and need some help figuring out what I can do to get better success.
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posted by garlic
on May 18, 2012 -
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I'm looking for software that will help me schedule play and practice sessions for teams in a sports league. Ideally, the software would be free and be flexible enough to take into account: the number of teams, how many times each team should play each other, & the number of available fields.
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posted by woodman
on Mar 30, 2012 -
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New college needs to schedule classes, including required courses and electives. Constraints include (a) requirements as to the total number of hours each class must meet per week, varying as to credit hours awarded (typically entailing 2-5 hours per week) -- but permitting flexibility in terms of number of sessions per week (1-5), what time of day they meet, and so forth; (b) scarce classroom space, of varied room capacity, for classes of varied expected sizes. Instructors not such a big constraint. Seeking advice to pass on about software that optimizes the use of space and maximizes the number of potential class offerings, or kinds of people with background that could be consulted. Cheapness desired -- think of the children! -- but not indispensable. Thanks!
posted by Clyde Mnestra
on Sep 24, 2011 -
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I need to recruit 500+ people in NYC to come in to do a study in a hotel conference room. They'll be in groups of 10, in 1-hour sessions. What can I use to let them (a) schedule themselves and (b) change their own signups?
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posted by dmd
on Sep 6, 2011 -
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I teach at a language training school, at which there are a few hundred students. My boss recently distributed a questionnaire to all of those students to determine the best times to schedule classes for each level of language proficiency. Unfortunately, it turns out that his plan for efficient scheduling ended at the point where we got those questionnaires back. Also unfortunately, I've developed a reputation as the local computer guy (because I can replace a broken mouse and make a chart in Excel), and so the job of making sense of the data has fallen to me.
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posted by Acetylene
on Jul 3, 2011 -
9 answers
Tips for generating personal consistency? You're going to fall out of the saddle in life, and you're going to have to get back on. How do you make that getting-back-on process easier? Example problems inside.
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posted by Cool Papa Bell
on Jun 1, 2011 -
14 answers
Recommendations to set up an online appointment booking system for student advising appointments and psychological experiment participation in a medium-sized academic department?
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posted by KDj82kao
on Apr 17, 2011 -
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OrganizationFilter: When scheduling tasks for a day, do you just throw them into a giant list and move through it, or do you come up with specific times and orders for things?
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posted by SNWidget
on Apr 15, 2011 -
17 answers
I have lived with my boyfriend of 4 years for 2 of those years and now I am moving out. How can I make this transition smoothly?
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posted by WeekendJen
on Feb 1, 2011 -
9 answers
MS Project Filter: How can I get MS project to accept my start/competion dates and show up on the calendar?
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posted by Seeba
on Dec 20, 2010 -
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Please tell me my options for appointment/resource scheduling for 15 users on Macs (local applications, server based, online based).
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posted by lenehan
on Nov 3, 2010 -
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Help me remind forgetful students (i.e. parents) of weekly lesson. Google Calendar and Gmail in place. Now, how to get reminders sent to them automatically?
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posted by skypieces
on Sep 24, 2010 -
4 answers
I'm looking for an osx app which would periodically check a folder on a remote WebDAV volume and download anything which has appeared on the same day.
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posted by monocultured
on Sep 3, 2010 -
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Planning / scheduling / dispatch software for a (small) airport taxi company? I'm struggling to find options for the above which aren't much too heavy / costly / over-featured for the size of business.
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posted by protorp
on Aug 31, 2010 -
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I've started a new, earlier work schedule now that I'm carpooling with my fianceé. I don't have issues waking up, but I do tend to feel "slower" when I'm trying to work at earlier hours in the morning. Any suggestions for how to feel clearer and more focused earlier in the day?
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posted by Allenthar
on Aug 25, 2010 -
13 answers
What's the going rate for contracting in Northern California as a Project Manager and Scheduler?
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posted by gov_moonbeam
on Aug 5, 2010 -
8 answers
Employee scheduling solution? Our in-house staff is big enough to require something better than a manually updated Excel file, but not big enough to warrant the time and expense of a full ERP...
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posted by Zinger
on May 31, 2010 -
5 answers
I'm looking for software to help streamline production scheduling in a small business.
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posted by tomble
on Mar 18, 2010 -
3 answers
Our son's Little League coach is constantly changing the practice schedule and practice location, albeit for legitimate reasons. Is this a standard part of the Little League experience?
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posted by mosk
on Mar 12, 2010 -
5 answers
Please help me find patient or practice management software for a SMALL chiropractic office.
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posted by SuperErin
on Mar 3, 2010 -
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Going to a concert at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pavilion this Saturday. It starts at 7:00, and it takes about an hour to get there from Shadyside/Oakland. What can we do to eat a tasty dinner?
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posted by ADoubtfulTrout
on May 29, 2009 -
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How can I identify software for online registration for soccer training sessions? I'm thinking there are some solutions out there that are basically blackbox that can then be tailored to my site, but I haven't been able to turn them up. I don't want to use just something like regonline.com because I have people signing up for each session and there are dozens of different sessions in a week.
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posted by ewiley28
on Mar 11, 2009 -
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