Automating OneNote with AutoHotKey to be a Journal

I use OneNote more and more in my daily work. I wanted to have the ability to make a journal function accessible from anywhere. **Goal :**To be able to hit Win+J and have OneNote open the right page and date and time stamp the entry. Outcome: When I hit Win+J it opens OneNote at the right week (I have one page per week with the heading of Week 1, Week 2, …, Week 52) goes to the end of the entry and inserts a line and then makes a check box with the date and time as the value. Continue reading

Enabling the query builder for outlook views

You can use an undocumented Registry key to display a Query Builder tab on the Filter dialog box associated with the View Summary dialog box. After you use the Query Builder to construct your query, you can then copy the Filter syntax displayed on the SQL page and paste it into your code. Do not attempt to add the Query Builder page Registry setting unless you are familiar with the Windows Registry Editor. Continue reading

A Touch of Paper

With my new role come a lot of recording, now that I do not have a tablet PC (and the fact that tablet PC’s are not ’there’ yet) I am using a paper diary. Now thoes of you who know me, no I have not gone mad! To be honest it feels good to be writing again, I have a nice A5 diary with plently of blank paper it it. A monthly calendar to mark anything down I need to and sections for tasks and projects. Continue reading

"Got the book, now get with the program."

“I have picked up a copy of Getting Things Done by David Allen. It is not to bad, it seems to be a more pratical approach to dealing with the volume of thing you have to do on a day to day basis. It handles things a lot differently than Covey and the 7 habits. <map id=““boxmap-p6"” name=““boxmap-p6""><area shape=““rect”” coords=““1, 140, 83, 150"” href=““