While taking my daily look at Stuff for Getting Things done, I stumbled upon an article about putting the Outlook calendar on your desktop. In fact, as I looked deeper into the program I discovered that you can also put your emails and tasks on there as well.
I’ve had some experience with desktop calendars, although none were as functional as Outlook, but I can say that I didn’t get much use out of them. I find that they go against my zenishly clean desktop philosophy and clutter more than they help out. I also like to separate work stages as much as possible, so actually having my Outlook in a separate app is good for me.
On the other hand, Outlook on the desktop is quite good, and I think the reason is that it puts your Outlook calendar on your desktop. You can see a few calendar items immediately and it’s fully functional so you can also interact with the calendar, emails and tasks.
All this is fully customizable, you can select which modules you want to see, where you want to see them, and you can even control the opacity (visibility). It also supports multiple monitors, and for some productivity nuts, this will be paradise! I like that there are some subtle features as well, like displaying the day of the month on the tray icon. I can determine the day without it of course, but still, a nice thought, better than just having some icon.
Oh, and it’s free of course, so go get it!
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I have used a similar free program called DESKTASK for a while that does the job in a lot less space. Check out:
http://www.carthagosoft.net/desktask.htm
Shame it’s Shareware and costs about $20…
I don’t know if you were referring to my post Daniel, but Desktask IS free. They sell another product called Twistpad, which is shareware.