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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One of my favorite Outlook hacks is to show tasks that you completed today in whatever view you are accustomed to using.
By default when you mark a task as completed, Outlook will remove it from any view that only shows active tasks. However, if you mark a task as completed by mistake it's a bit of work to correct this. I really like to have a sense of what was done today in my task view and the good news is that it's pretty easy to enable this due to Outlook's seemingly infinite customizability.
Step 1: You must enable the Query Builder tab to appear
Open Notepad and enter the following text:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\QueryBuilder] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\QueryBuilder]
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\QueryBuilder]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\QueryBuilder]
Save the file as Enable Query Builder.reg and then open that file.
Step 2: Set The Filter Options for the Current Task View
Go to any task view in Outlook, and select View -> Current View -> Customize Current View and click Filter.
Step 3: Configure the view like this:
Viola.
Mad props to Tim Marman for the suggestion.