Every 3-6 months one manager or another arbitrarily asks us to detail how much time we spent on specific projects vs. R&D. Thanks to Outlook Journal I can extract everything from the requested time period to Excel, sort, categorise, sum up the time spent and respond back to them within the hour. I also recently proved that the product documentation for our latest software release took literally double the amount of time to produce compared to an earlier release in the same period last year (no wonder I was stressed)! :) Warren, I would be interested to know how you track phone calls... ~Amitee -----Original Message----- From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Warren Lewington Sent: Tuesday, 23 September 2008 9:55 PM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Re: File Paths It has been very reliable for me. No, it doesn't slow down the computers I have been using it on for nearly six years. I am using it to track everything, from phone calls, task times, meetings, whatever. It is useful for all sorts of things. I would be a bit lost without it now, especially my invoicing. Incidentally, I went to Journal from a timesheet spreadsheet system, and it has proven to be very efficient. It does lovely searches and so on. Very efficient. I am also using it over Business contact manager, which fowls up MSSQL for everything else you might care to use... Regards; Warren -----Original Message----- From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Suzy Sent: Tuesday, 23 September 2008 21:09 To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: File Paths Warren wrote: You people should try Outlook Journal. Turn on the option to track Office documents. Incredible. Is this the same Outlook Journal that slowed your PC down when it first came out? So much that everyone disabled it? I tend to not go back to MS software once I've been burned. Certainly wouldn't be relying on it to find my files for me! But each to their own. cheers suzy ************************************************** To view the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field (without quotes). To manage your subscription (e.g., set and unset DIGEST and VACATION modes) go to www.freelists.org/list/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************** ************************************************** To view the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field (without quotes). To manage your subscription (e.g., set and unset DIGEST and VACATION modes) go to www.freelists.org/list/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************