Why it worked
The video provides a practical and easily applicable productivity hack for a widely used software, addressing a common pain point for users.
Summary
This video demonstrates a productivity hack for Outlook, showing how to turn any email into a task. It explains how to highlight text in an email, add it to your Outlook tasks, and then manage it with deadlines and reminders.
Structure
- 1Introduce the Outlook hack
- 2Demonstrate adding an email to tasks
- 3Show task management options
- 4Explain how to complete the task
Product placement
Outlook: ACTS - it is an email and task management software that is being demonstrated. Removing it would change what happens in the video.
Microsoft: APPEARS - it is the developer of Outlook, visible as a logo on the software interface. Removing it would not change what happens in the video.
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the Outlook hack you didn't know you needed
highlight your "To Do" in any email and add it to your Tasks
assign a deadline, set reminders add steps, attach a document, etc.
when you're done, open the original email and write your reply, then mark the Task as done!