Open Outlook and Go Directly to Your Tasks

As noted a few weeks back, I had switched to Evernote for collecting and managing my to-do's.  Yesterday, I moved my task list back to Microsoft Outlook.  Why?  Managing two different places for my stuff was driving me crazy.  I needed one integrated place for my stuff, and since I spend most of my day in Outlook, it made best sense to move my tasks and quick notes from Evernote back to Microsoft Outlook.  For some insight into how I use Outlook to manage tasks, read the post titled "How I use Outlook Tasks - Keeping it simple".

What I will really miss with Evernote is that it was always resident in memory, always a mouse click away, always sitting there in my System Tray waiting for me.  I did come up with what seems to be a semi-workable alternative.  That being, a desktop icon that takes me directly to my Outlook tasks.  To create this icon, I created a shortcut on my desktop that points to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select outlook:tasks.  Kind of kludgy, but workable.

If anyone has any better ideas for quick access to Outlook tasks, please let me know.  Thanks!