Using the My Day feature on Outlook in the browser

Microsoft’s been doing a good job in getting the web-based Outlook client to feature-parity with the Outlook client. One of the latest additions to web-based Outlook is the My Day feature, which easily allows you to see your to-do and calendar in the main email page. Here’s how it works…

When you’re in Outlook, click on the My Day icon in the upper-right corner (it looks like a calendar and checkmark):

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That displays a panel on the right side of your page which shows your Calendar entries for the day:

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Calendar 
January 
To Do 
12 
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14 
15 
16 
17 
x 
18 
All day 
14 days 
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@ in 1 hour 32 min 
6 
7:30 AM 
30 min 
8:00 AM 
30 min 
Skype Meeting 
Daily SharePoint Standup 
Skype Meeting 
4- New event

When you click on the To Do link, it also shows you any Tasks which you have in your Task list:

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This is yet another reason why I might consider going completely web-based in Outlook sometime this year…

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