This Week: My favorite ways to get organized in the least amount of time

This week i will be writing posts about my favorite (and possibly little known ways) to get organized. Most of these posts will talk about being “electronically” organized- i’ll leave home/office organization to someone else as it is not my forte.

Here is my first (and favorite) shortcut for being organized- this is for people who use Microsoft Outlook for their email and Calendar.

Nowadays it it seems like every invitation whether it is business or social comes via email. Instead of retyping all of the information from an email invite onto an Outlook appointment on your calendar, there is a simple way to transfer the email to your calendar. Simply highlight the email and drag it onto the Calendar icon on the left-hand side of Outlook. This will automatically open up a new appointment and put the entire body of the email into the “notes” field. Now all you have to do is set the date, time and a reminder for yourself. The rest of the info on location and anything else is right at your fingertips any time you open the appointment on your calendar. AND the best part is that you can now delete the email (the info will remain in the notes of your appointment) which will unclutter your inbox.

Hopefully i just saved you enough time each day to take an extra 10 minutes on your coffee break!