Microsoft continues to improve MS To-Do, the app they purchased from Wunderlist in June 2015. While you can get MS To Do as a free stand-alone product, integrations with MS Planner, MS Teams and expanded integrations with MS Outlook/Exchange in the MS 365 suite mean that you have more intelligent suggestions for what should go on your daily task list….
Every week subscribers receive the ICYMI enewsletter from the NCBA Center for Practice Management. The newsletter highlights tips, tools, trends, and techniques to help your law practice. Following are a few popular links from the past issues of the newsletter. Technology Competence for Every Lawyer (October 01, 2021) Jim Calloway points out that the comment to Rule 1.1 regarding technology competency applies…
Recently the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reinstate a lawsuit tossed after the plaintiff’s attorney didn’t respond to a motion for summary judgment because the attorney missed an email. The lawyer didn’t see the emailed notice because the email landed in a different folder, despite all the others finding their way into the main email box. What can…
If you recently switched from using Gmail or MS Outlook and miss some of the features and layout of your familiar email application, there are some things that you can do to make Gmail look more like Outlook (or make Outlook look more like Gmail). The interfaces to these two popular email programs are vastly different, but there are lots…
Every week subscribers receive the ICYMI enewsletter from the NCBA Center for Practice Management. The newsletter highlights tips, tools, trends, and techniques to help your law practice. Following are a few popular links from the past issues of the newsletter. Update Your iPhone, iPad, Mac Immediately, Apple Warns (July 30, 2021) If you have not yet updated your Apple devices do so…
Microsoft 365 (fka Office 365) is the subscription model that consists of the MS Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote) plus MS Outlook and cloud-based servers (Exchange and SharePoint). The Business Standard version is $12.50 per user per month. That is merely the tip of the iceberg, as the subscription also comes with many other tools like Teams for communication…
If you are a Microsoft Outlook user and you have dozens and dozens of folders to help keep your inbox clean and your emails organized you know that moving those emails to the appropriate folder can be quite the task, especially if you have nested folders. SimplyFile from TechHit can help by “learning” your folder structure and suggesting the correct…
There are so many ways to save yourself keystrokes and headaches while you are using your computer, whether dealing with email, opening a website, sharing information, requesting information, or interacting with social media. Following are just a few tips that can help you speed activities up for little to no cost. 1. Add Apps to the Windows Start Menu Many…
Every day you probably attach a document (or two) to an email, send it and move along. However, there are a lot of options for sending documents electronically that are far better than attachments. Most law firms have several products designed to securely send documents, collaborate, review, and collect information. Before you reflexively attach a document to an email, think…
Every week subscribers receive the ICYMI enewsletter from the NCBA Center for Practice Management. The newsletter highlights tips, tools, trends, and techniques to help your law practice. Following are a few popular links from the past issues of the newsletter. How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone A step-by-step guide to freeing up space on your iPhone so you can download…