[MLO] Possible to have MLO tasks with date/time to sync to Outlook Calendar with appropriate date/time?

[Thomas]

Hi,

I have one workflow problem with using MLO and Outlook. GTD recommends
having day/time critical tasks in your calendar. MLO can be used to
set day/time critical tasks in MLO, but I would prefer seeing them in
my Calendar since it gives my all day/time critical things in one
place. However, placing one time critical task from an MLO project to
a Calendar creates an out of sync situation because I now use two
systems for time critical tasks. The workaround would be to set the
task that comes after the time critical task to start after the task
in calendar has passed, but this is not so elegant.

So, it would be great if I have created a task in MLO with date/time,
this task would, when synced with Outlook, automatically show up as an
event in the Outlook Calendar. When the date/time specific Outlook
Calendar event has been deleted (done) or something, it would also
remove the task in MLO. Maby this has already been done? Maybe I
haven't set-up my Outlook Calendar to show date/time specific Outlook
tasks?

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[daneb]

Hi, at the moment, there is no easy way to sync between Outlook
calendar and MLO. You can sync only between MLO and Outlook tasks.
There are some possibilities for solving your problem:

- use some outlook utility/plug-in for automatically copying tasks to
calendar=creating appointments from tasks (however I would say the
results are the same as to manually copy it, as I doubt you will be
able to sync changes anymore with MLO), I saw such a plugin but I
forgot it - try google it.
- sync and filter only "date critical" tasks in Outlook and view them
in calendar view in Outlook, than you can arrange to view both
calendars paralelly - appointments and this filtered tasks view side
by side
- however the easiest way I personally use is to use MLO for tasks,
ticklers and subjective/personal deadlines, and Outlook for
appointments, hard dates, meetings with people, and hard/most
important deadlines. You can always see both side by side.

Daneb