Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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I downloaded and tried Jello.Dashboard for GTD the other day. In short, I don't like it. I think that it's a pretty incredible testament to what's possible with the Outlook Today page and how little anyone's ever used it. Just look at this sad little Today page.
Anyway, since I hadn't seen the Today page since 2001 or something I went looking at the source of the default today page. You can see the source by opening: res://C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\1033\OUTLWVW.DLL/outlook.htm in notepad. It's just HTML, CSS etc.
The guy hat wrote Jello gets some mad props for basically writing a Web 2.0 application inside of Outlook. That's right, it's good old JavaScript just using some special Active X Controls. Web 2.0 inside of Outlook?
Anyway, the thing I didn't like about Jello is that it uses this weird wacko way of identifying projects (any category that starts with "(@P):". Personally, I'd rather something that surrounds the category with brackets or something. The workflow is also a bit clunky.
But it got me thinking. It really would not be that hard to create a nice little task dashboard.... oh if I only had time and desire to mess around in JavaScript.