Amazing Fast Tip: Outlook Items Creation from Taskbar
By Jason Henkel, Chief Balance Engineer
As we all spend hundreds and even thousands of hours in front of our computers every year, I'd like to share one of my favorite little fast hacks as it relates to better usage of Microsoft Outlook. This is a nice click-reducer and time saver. In my world, it's all about minutes saved adding up to hours which eventually leads to full days saved. Check this tip out.
Did you know that from any application/program that you are running on your computer (whether it be a web browser, a spreadsheet, CAD software), you are just one click away from creating a new Outlook item (new email, new appointment, new task, etc.)? You don't even have to have Outlook open and running!
Here's how:
On your computer screen (regardless of what program you are running), just right click (not left click) on the little Outlook icon in your taskbar at the very bottom of your screen. Upon doing that, you'll see a list come up with options to do many things including creating new Outlook items.
This is the only way I create new emails, appointments, meetings, notes, and tasks. It's a sort of "one stop shop" so I don't have to click three or four times to create a new item. No thought is required, thus saving micro-cognitive load, which adds up to cause mental fatigue throughout a working day!
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