Productivity solutions

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I hate the Teams shared files feature. We pretty much quit using it. I chat with my ladies all day on it though.

[spike]

I hate the Teams shared files feature. We pretty much quit using it. I chat with my ladies all day on it though.

There’s no D in Teams.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I hate the Teams shared files feature. We pretty much quit using it. I chat with my ladies all day on it though.

There’s no D in Teams.

There is meat.

[spike]

I hate the Teams shared files feature. We pretty much quit using it. I chat with my ladies all day on it though.

There’s no D in Teams.

There is meat.

Play on, playa

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I hate the Teams shared files feature. We pretty much quit using it. I chat with my ladies all day on it though.

There’s no D in Teams.

There is meat.

Play on, playa

I'm going to die alone.

[epilogue]

Am I the only person on the planet not using Slack?

Not only do in it use it, I’ve never heard of it.

Really? Do you not like listen to any podcasts?

Only three right now. What does they have to do with Slack?

Nothing. It was dumb joke. Several pods that I listen to mention their Slack channels.

It's sort of like how if you'd never heard of Blue Apron I'd ask if you ever listened to any podcasts.

[washing machine]

Bookmarking this thread.

[bart]

I used it briefly during covid but didn’t find it especially helpful

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I used it briefly during covid but didn’t find it especially helpful

Thanks.

[bart]

I used it briefly during covid but didn’t find it especially helpful

Thanks.

Happy to do it

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I used it briefly during covid but didn’t find it especially helpful

Thanks.

Happy to do it

That's what's up.

[Ello Sailor]

Outlook is an abomination.

It really is. Anyone who likes it, I'd love to hear your reasoning.

[knee tunes]

I play with it all day long?

[knee tunes]

Bookmarking this thread.

RM is really just a bunch of skeleton raisins, say it

[Bammer]

Outlook is an abomination.

It really is. Anyone who likes it, I'd love to hear your reasoning.

I’d die without it.

Email, calendar, and contacts all in one place. Sub-categorize email, go back and find something you sent 5 years ago…

It’s fkn great. And email/calendar syncs to my phone.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[bart]

Outlook is an abomination.

It really is. Anyone who likes it, I'd love to hear your reasoning.

I’d die without it.

Email, calendar, and contacts all in one place. Sub-categorize email, go back and find something you sent 5 years ago…

It’s fkn great. And email/calendar syncs to my phone.

Are there email apps that don’t have these features?

[Jorge]

Email, calendar, and contacts all in one place. Sub-categorize email, go back and find something you sent 5 years ago…

Are any of these things unique to Outlook?

[Jorge]

Outlook is an abomination.

It really is. Anyone who likes it, I'd love to hear your reasoning.

I’d die without it.

Email, calendar, and contacts all in one place. Sub-categorize email, go back and find something you sent 5 years ago…

It’s fkn great. And email/calendar syncs to my phone.

Are there email apps that don’t have these features?

Lol

[Higgs]

Outlook is an abomination.

It really is. Anyone who likes it, I'd love to hear your reasoning.

I’d die without it.

Email, calendar, and contacts all in one place. Sub-categorize email, go back and find something you sent 5 years ago…

It’s fkn great. And email/calendar syncs to my phone.

I always managed to get by with Outlook, I have always been e-mail centric from a work perspective. I knew it wasn't the perfect solution for me and my small team, but it (mostly) worked and wasn't too much of a pain (or so I thought).

We took the plunge last year and bought in Karbon, which is an accounting-firm specific practice management platform. It essentially takes over your Outlook and deals with your e-mails and in-house messaging all in the one place. It is fucking brilliant and I love it, even though it is damn expensive.

Nowdays I don't have to open Outlook almost at all, I do everything through Karbon. The best thing is I can create a "WORK" item directly from an e-mail and assign that to a staff member. We can then use that WORK item almost like a RM thread with everyone in our office able to see the e-mails and notes and discussions and documents all in one place. So very good.

And because I invested the time into creating these specific WORK templates that list out our processes for each main work item that we deal with (think 'tax return' or 'end of month reporting' or similar tasks like that) it means that it also acts as a default procedures manual for boring tasks.

And on top of that I've made those WORK items recurring, which means that every month new WORK items are automatically created and the staff member associated is notified. They then just jump in and start the WORK without my having to manually organise it. Means I can essentially sit back and just manage work across the team without having to always pre-plan and do that boring manual stuff.

Best investment we've made in our practice since we ditched the servers and moved to the cloud back in 2015.