Outlook Journal

[j123jam]

I recently learned about the journaling feature in Microsoft Outlook an
I was wondering what people use it for. So what do you use it for? I
you don't use it, is there some alternative you choose instead? I ofte
track what I'm doing by adding events to my Outlook calendar, so I'm no
quite sure why I want this information separately in the journal.

Thanks for your input

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You might want to log your time spent on a phone call and add some
additional info to it; the Journal can be used for that. As you probably do
not schedule each and every phone call that you make, adding it to the
Calendar doesn't make any sense then. Also, a calendar item doesn't have a
timer button to automatically record the time that you have spent on it.

Also, other Office applications and also other 3rd party applications can
register themselves in Outlook as Journal Entry Types. Then you can
automatically log how long you've spent working on a certain document and
don't have to do that manually.

There are many other ways in which you can use the Journal, but it
definitely is very separate from a Calendar and Tasks.

If you want to create reports from the time you've logged in the Calendar,
Tasks and Journal, then this add-in might be useful to you;
http://addins.howto-outlook.com/vboffice_reporter

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I think the big thing that makes a difference for the best method is what
you are recording- if only things that you need to record manually, then an
appointment is fine but journal can automatically record documents and
emails and can record the time you spent working on a document.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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[j123jam]

Thanks for the responses! I'll probably give the Journal a try