As you will have read in various other places it is not productive to stay “in” Outlook and constantly respond to all the incoming e-mail.
It’s much better to go into your e-mail when it suits YOU – process your e-mail for a set period of time and then get back to some “real” work.
I had looked at various ways to implement this but it turns out that this is simple to implement using AutoHotkey (AHK).
Category: Misc
Anything that does not realy sit anywhere else.
I decided to create a playlist that contained all of the number ones from my birthday over the years:
Some Good – Some Not So Good
What would your’s look like?
The latest update to the Feedly application for Android has just added support for tags.
Previously; when I have found something “interesting” in Feedly, I have had to mark it as “Save For Later” and then when I’m next on my laptop or Chromebook, I convert my saved later articles to have the tag “BlogThis”.
Now; as soon as I find something I wish to share I can immediately tag the article “BlogThis” and the wheels will immediately start turning. I have an IFTT recipe which will scan Feedly for articles tagged with “BlogThis” and will then push them onto my blog www.RossGoodman.com. From there, there I then push the content from my blog onto Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Expect to see more “real time” updates in the future!
Run done – check.
Breakfast eaten – check.
Spot by the pool – you tell me?
The excellent site www.Feedly.com has been suffering under a DDoS attack for the last few days. I thought I had my backup regime pretty well under control but it’s only now that I can’t access feedly that I realise it’s the only place where my current reading list is stored!
This is what prompted yesterdays post concerning my podcast list – just in case there was ever a problem with that.
Once feedly comes back I’ll be backing up my OPML file so that I can access the list of sites that I review on a daily basis.
It’s a sad state of affairs that I can’t remember my favourite sites and I don’t even bother to bookmark them any more.
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My podcast playlist
Just in case anyone is interested – here is my current podcast contents. If you want to recommend any of your favourites to me – let me know in the comments below.
Although there is the functionality within Outlook where you can drag an email message and drop it on the calendar menu to automatically create an appointment – it copies many of the attributes of the email but it does not copy the mail sender & recipients to the appointment.
The following macro will allow you to do this:
I have gotten into a nice grove of writing a blog post a day – mostly describing some script, macro or hack that I have implemented. Today I have (rather belatedly) discovered RescueTime which will log and report on your online activities.
This has ironically distracted me from thinking about my blog whilst I install it on my phone and my chromebook. In return, I’ll investigate the API over the weekend and write up anything interesting that I find.
Let me know in the comments if you have any cool hint’s, tips or sample code that you would like to share with me.
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Free Money
Sounds too good to be true – usually a warning sign – in this case it IS true. I have been using Quidco since 2006 and am almost at Entrepreneur level (have earned £500 cash back).
The basic premise is, you shop online as normal except you visit Quidco first, this sets up an affiliate link and the cashback comes to you rather than the advertiser. In return Quidco keeps the first £5 of the cashback so if you don’t use it it doesn’t cost you anything.
To try and push me across into the next level I’m offering a referral bonus, if you click on the image below, join and have earned £5 cashback this link will give you an additional £5!
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Outlook Calendar To Excel
I need to produce a weekly report detailing what work I have carried out. I diligently record this in my Outlook calendar. My weekly report needs to be submitted in Microsoft Excel.
The following macro will pull the entries for the last seven days from my calendar and store it in Excel format.