Google’s great in lots of ways, but one place they’re lacking is the task management department. If you rely on Outlook’s task functionality to stay on top of your work, what are you supposed to do when your company migrates to Google Workspace? Or you switch jobs for a company that’s already deep in the Google ecosystem? There’s no way you’re going back to a physical planner and giving up the timely reminders telling you to get your work done. If it needed to be done, I made it a task. I assigned them to my teammates after we doled out work at weekly meetings. I scheduled recurring monthly and yearly tasks so I wouldn’t ever forget work that happened less frequently. As anyone who’s switched to a digital planner will know, being able to keep track of my action items in the same place as my email and calendar was a major game changer. I had always gotten by with writing out a to-do list in my notebook or putting sticky notes on my monitor. Then I learned about a feature that completely converted me: Tasks (now known as To Do). If I hadn’t been required to use Outlook, I probably wouldn’t have chosen to. I was less excited to learn Microsoft Outlook. And it came with free snacks on Thursdays!. When I started my first full-time job, I was pumped.
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