Sticky Stuff–Information at Your Fingertips in Outlook 2010

This is a simple hack, but a powerful one.  I call it “Sticky Stuff.”  It puts information at your finger tips, such as To Do Lists, in a sticky way.

Here’s what I do.  In Outlook 2010, I create a folder called “Sticky Stuff” and I add it to my “Favorites” short list:

In that folder, I create a new “Posts.”  In Outlook 2010, the way to add posts to a folder is to “New Items”, then “More Items”, then “Post in this folder.”   You can then add your To do Lists or any key reference information that you need at your finger tips.  If you constantly get a barrage of information, and you need to have quick access to your action items, or if you need to have quick access to information that you constantly look up, this little hack should help a lot.

The beauty of this is it’s another pillar of helping me keep an empty inbox or a zero inbox.  At Microsoft, where many of us get a few hundred emails per day of stuff we have to stay on top of, that’s a very big deal.

Note, when you need to edit a Post, you have to open the post, and click “Actions”, then “Edit Message.”