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Old October 19th 06, 10:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
LurfysMa
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I'm looking for suggestions for methods or tools to help me manage
literally hundreds of task reminders. They pop up all day long
interrupting my work and sometimes causing data entry errors.

I need the tasks and the reminders. I've tried turning off the
reminders, but

What would be ideal, from my perspective, is some tool that would
capture the reminders in some list (of "due" reminders?) so they don't
pop up on the screen. Then have one single reminder pop-up (on some
schedule that I could control) if there are any active or due
reminders in the list.

The tasks fall into some general groups. I suppose I could assign
categories or something. Then if I could get one reminder for each
group.

Does anything like this exist?

Can I create it with some custom configuring or a little coding?

If code will work, I'll hire someone to write it.

I'm using Outlook 2000, but will be upgrading soon, if that makes any
difference. We're upgrading all of our computers.

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Old October 20th 06, 05:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
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You may try Cute Reminder. It does not exactly the same thing you
requesting, but it will show you unobtrusive non-interrupting pop-up
reminders, which are incredibly easy to set up, delete, and postpone.
You can also post sticky notes on your screen. The Pro version can run
in the system tray and export/import data to/from MS Outlook.

Nicholas

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Cute Reminder - your professional reminder solution
http://www.CuteReminder.com



LurfysMa wrote:
I'm looking for suggestions for methods or tools to help me manage
literally hundreds of task reminders. They pop up all day long
interrupting my work and sometimes causing data entry errors.

I need the tasks and the reminders. I've tried turning off the
reminders, but

What would be ideal, from my perspective, is some tool that would
capture the reminders in some list (of "due" reminders?) so they don't
pop up on the screen. Then have one single reminder pop-up (on some
schedule that I could control) if there are any active or due
reminders in the list.

The tasks fall into some general groups. I suppose I could assign
categories or something. Then if I could get one reminder for each
group.

Does anything like this exist?

Can I create it with some custom configuring or a little coding?

If code will work, I'll hire someone to write it.

I'm using Outlook 2000, but will be upgrading soon, if that makes any
difference. We're upgrading all of our computers.

--
Using Outlook 2000 on Windows 2000


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Old October 20th 06, 01:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Brian Tillman
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LurfysMa wrote:

I'm using Outlook 2000, but will be upgrading soon, if that makes any
difference. We're upgrading all of our computers.


Outlook 2003's reminder window is unified - all reminders occur in the same
window.
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Old October 21st 06, 12:35 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
LurfysMa
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:34:52 -0400, "Brian Tillman"
wrote:

LurfysMa wrote:

I'm using Outlook 2000, but will be upgrading soon, if that makes any
difference. We're upgrading all of our computers.


Outlook 2003's reminder window is unified - all reminders occur in the same
window.


Ahhh... Great news. That will add motivation to speed the upgrade.

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Using Outlook 2000 on Windows 2000
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Old October 21st 06, 12:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
LurfysMa
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On 19 Oct 2006 21:40:52 -0700, wrote:

You may try Cute Reminder. It does not exactly the same thing you
requesting, but it will show you unobtrusive non-interrupting pop-up
reminders, which are incredibly easy to set up, delete, and postpone.
You can also post sticky notes on your screen. The Pro version can run
in the system tray and export/import data to/from MS Outlook.

Nicholas

----------------------
Cute Reminder - your professional reminder solution
http://www.CuteReminder.com

Thanks. I think I'll upgrade to 2003 first and see if the unified
reminder window (per Brian) solves the problem. If not, I'll look into
Cute Reminder.

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Using Outlook 2000 on Windows 2000
 




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