Managing GTD Projects in Outlook
Managing GTD Projects in Outlook
This method is based on treating a Project as if it were an Outlook Contact item. As a result, you can link all of your associated tasks, contacts, notes, journal entries, documents and any other “objects” to your project, and view them from an Activities Tab, just as you would with a “person” contact. You can maintain a simple list of projects and “drill down” through the Outlook forms to any level of detail desired. You can display your Next Actions on any task list or your calendar. You will have a complete history of your project at any time, and can archive that history if necessary. You can employ the full sorting, filtering and viewing capability of Outlook on any of your project data.You can implement this method with no complicated customization of Outlook, though a couple of minor tricks illustrated on these pages will polish the look of your project management.
This is a pretty cool idea. I have recently gone back to a plain vanilla setup of outlook to manage my GTD processes for my tasks. My reference information is being kept in onenote.
At the moment, I am using onenote to do the project planning and use the rudimentary outlook integration to create the outlook tasks from the onenote page. I think I like this setup although I would like to see Microsoft increase the link between outlook and onenote.
However, this is also a neat way of handling the multi-steps of a project.