Best practices for using tasks and to-do items

[Dunazee]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Can anyone point me to an article or something that can give me some insight on the best way to use these two functions? What is the difference between tasks and to-dos?

Thanks.

 

[Diane Ross]

Can anyone point me to an article or something that can give me some insight
on the best way to use these two functions? What is the difference between
tasks and to-dos?

They are confusing to me too.

Calendar events are for a specific date at a specific time. Tasks remain
on your To Do list until completed.

Tasks can be started and completed on specific days but no specific
time. Also, they can be prioritized by urgency and status regardless of
date. Tasks don't drop off until you clear them whereas if you don't
move an event on your Calendar then you can overlook it later.

Manage tasks and events by using MyDay
<http://tinyurl.com/mu93nk>

Use the To Do List
<http://tinyurl.com/lstqpa>

Create, edit, and delete tasks
<http://tinyurl.com/na6rre>

Hope this helps!

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

Can anyone point me to an article or something that can give me some
insight on the best way to use these two functions? What is the
difference between tasks and to-dos?

Simply put:

1. A Task is an item you create yourself.
2. A To Do is an item you create from something else.

To expand on this, all To Do items are created from mail messages,
contacts or something else. To Do items replace the old "flagged
messages" that we had in earlier versions of Entourage. The assumption
is that you flag a message because you need "to do" something with it later.

Frankly, I think Microsoft over-complicated these two items. They're all
the same thing to me. For technical reasons, they had to distinguish
between the two somehow.

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bill

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[Dunazee]

Thanks, Bill. I kind of suspected as such. Rarely do I create a to-do from an email, but it's not unheard of. Lately I've been using MyDay, and adding new items to my list via the button on the bottom. So many things on my list have nothing to do with the computer, but it's nice to have the "master list" all together in one place.

ANyway, regards, and thanks.