Comments on: Any Outlook for Mac users out there? https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/any-outlook-for-mac-users-out-there/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=any-outlook-for-mac-users-out-there David Allen's GTD® Methodology Sun, 18 Apr 2021 14:48:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Asterion https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/any-outlook-for-mac-users-out-there/#comment-133162 Sun, 18 Apr 2021 14:48:20 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/14/#comment-133162 My employer has, without notice, made Outlook the only email app we can use to access our email. I found this out after not being able to collect email for two days on Apple Mail. IT services at my employer have said this is because they no longer support “3rd party email apps”. I have explained that Apple Mail is not 3rd party on the Mac, but is the ‘native’ email app for the platform — Microsoft Outlook is the 3rd party email app on the Mac! But (as in the tradition of IT gatekeepers) they refuse to bend to reason, claiming that Microsoft is “secure” and Apple is not! I have 20 years of email archive relating to networks and projects. Outlook currently does not event support folders ‘on my Mac’, everything having to be stored on Microsoft’s servers. They also do not even support HTML signatures.
I am a long time user of MailTags. I have around 50 projects and tags set up, as well around 80 rules that automatically tag and file incoming messages. I link to Omnifocus tasks arising from messages, using an AppleScript to do this.
All this work in developing my GTD workflow over the past ten years is being wiped away by some ignorant (and factually incorrect) IT decision.
I am, understandably, very frustrated and angry at this.
Microsoft sells Outlook for Mac without many of the basic features completed (local folders and HTML signatures being only two in a long, long list). I am so depressed at having to move to this second-rate system and rebuild my entire workflow.

]]> By: Rich W https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/any-outlook-for-mac-users-out-there/#comment-46472 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 13:09:52 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/14/#comment-46472 Would love to have an Outlook plugin for Mac Office 365 live there is for Windows.

]]> By: Editor https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/any-outlook-for-mac-users-out-there/#comment-3192 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:34:00 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/14/#comment-3192 Hi Jessica, we haven’t heard of anything like that. But you might try asking on the GTD forum. http://www.davidco.com/forum

]]> By: Jessica https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/any-outlook-for-mac-users-out-there/#comment-3191 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:12:54 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/14/#comment-3191 I love Outlook 2011, even more than Outlook 2010 for PC. My only issue is that I use an exchange server and cannot find anything GTD that will work with Outlook 2011 and exchange. Suggestions?

]]> By: spb https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/any-outlook-for-mac-users-out-there/#comment-3190 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:25:48 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/14/#comment-3190 Microsoft in February of 2013 came out with an update for Office 2011. Apparently, it integrates better with Office 365. I do not use Office 365 at the moment.

I was using all the Mac Software with OmniFocus, but switched back to Outlook 2011 just this month. I use TASKS in Outlook for my GTD system along with MYDay, a combination Calendar/Task App that in unique to Outlook 2011.

For me, this works better than the Apple Software and OmniFocus. Today, I have 59 TASKS pending. My weekly “Look-a-Head” is done over the weekend, I’ll probably add 10 TASKS and eliminate 5. At the moment I have 149 emails that have come in since Monday that have not been filed yet. Typically, I’ll probably delete about 10% of the EMAILS and file the rest.

I miss OneNote, which I used to use when I was a PC guy. Instead, I use MS Word, in the NOTEBOOK LAYOUT VIEW, as a substitute.

I am hopeful that Microsoft will one day improve the Mac Software products up to or surpass the PC versions of Office. I use a Mac, because it is so superior to a typical PC. I wish Microsoft would swallow it’s pride, and prosper by improving its Mac Software.

Although, it should be said that Microsoft’s Mac Software is still better than the Apple Software for their own Mac. Both Softwares could be a lot better.

Good luck to all of you.

— spb

]]> By: spbowen https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/any-outlook-for-mac-users-out-there/#comment-3189 Wed, 30 May 2012 03:01:40 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/14/#comment-3189 I’m struggling to set up a good GTD system on my Mac Pro. I’ve been trying a variety of different programs and techniques, but nothing yet seems right for me.

However, Apple is going to be upgrading their operating system this summer to “Mountain Lion”. I have studied the description of the new OS and It is possible that it might have all the tools needed to set up a great GTD system; which will span across the iPad and iPhone through the already great iCloud system.

There will be a new “Notes” app. A much improved “Task List” along with some improvements in “Mail”,and “iCal”. Might have everything we need, and then some.

spb

]]> By: Estlack https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/any-outlook-for-mac-users-out-there/#comment-3188 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:20:57 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/14/#comment-3188 I have to design for it. It’s a web standards butcher, even by email standards – but, what do you expect from a company that gave you explorer?

]]> By: LBB https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/any-outlook-for-mac-users-out-there/#comment-3187 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:48:30 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/14/#comment-3187 So Lutz do you think it is worth using the app. when stuck with an imap account?
(I am worried about the processing of deleting my imap account in order to start afresh and make a pop account….)
Many thanks for your hard work btw!

]]> By: Jason https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/any-outlook-for-mac-users-out-there/#comment-3186 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:45:46 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/14/#comment-3186 I use outlook 2011 for Mac, but I’m here to warn you not to. It’s total garbage! It performs like a snail even on a super high end macpro. The entire app hangs while it checks mail every 60 seconds, etc.

AVOID AVOID AVOID!

]]> By: Kelly Forrister https://gettingthingsdone.com/2011/02/any-outlook-for-mac-users-out-there/#comment-3185 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:06:58 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2011/02/14/#comment-3185 Hi Sam,

We have not done any extensive testing yet on Outlook for Mac. We’ll be sure to post something though if/when we do.

Kelly

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