IMPLEMENTING MISSION CONTROL®

IN MICROSOFT® OUTLOOK®

How to Setup the Not and Never Doing Now Lists,Agendas, and the Vivid Display

For Outlook 2010, PC only

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WELCOME! This guide will walk you through the setup of Microsoft Outlook for use with the Mission Control system. There are two components to this:

1. Importing the Vivid Display folder (the Not Doing Now List, the Never Doing NowList, and the Agenda Template)

2. Building the Shortcut Bar to customize your Outlook interface

Before we get started – these instructions are for Outlook 2010 on the PC. If you’re on a Mac, or a newer version (2013 and 2016), we have instructions on our site for setting up Outlook on those systems.

If you’re not sure which version you have, please visit this site: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/870929

All set? Let’s get started!

IMPORTING THE VIVID DISPLAY FOLDER

The Not and Never Doing Now lists, and the Agenda template are modified Task list folders in Microsoft Outlook. The formatting of these items has been saved as an Outlook Data File (a .PST file) that can be imported and saved to your computer.

STEP 1: Downloading the Outlook PST File

If you haven’t done so already, please visit this page and download the Outlook PST File:

https://www.missioncontrol.com/guides/

Make sure you right-click to download and save it to your computer – don’t open it in Outlook just yet. Depending on which browser you are using, you may need to select “Save target as…” or “Save link as…” or “Save file as…”.

NOTE FOR FIREFOX USERS: When downloading this file, Firefox will place a .txt extension at the end of this file. When the download is complete, you can rename the file to “MCP-VividDisplay.pst” and eliminate the .txt extension.

STEP 2: Opening the Data File in Outlook Now open Outlook. Go to the “File” tab at the top left, and click on it.

Then, click on “Open” and “Open Outlook Data File”.

This will bring up a window to locate the file we downloaded in Step 1 – the MCP-VividDisplay.pst file. Navigate to the location of the file (usually in the “Downloads” folder), select the file, and then click “OK”.

STEP 3: Moving the Vivid Display folders On the lower left-hand side of Outlook is a section with links to your Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and some smaller icons after that. Click on the small yellow folder icon. This will bring Outlook to the Folder List view, and allow us to copy some files from the imported data file to the folders on your computer. Note: you can also invoke this view using the Ctrl + 6 key command.

On the left hand side, you should see all of the folders associated with your account, and after that, a new item called “Mission Control Vivid Display”. Click the black arrow next to this item to expand the folder.

Once expanded, you should see three items: Deleted Items, Search Folders, and Vivid Display. Click on the Vivid Display folder, and drag it into the list of folders above. To do this, click on the folder, and while holding down, move it up to your group of folders (for example, after “Tasks”). When you’ve completed this step, it should look something like this:

STEP 4: Closing the Outlook Data File Now that we’ve moved the Vivid Display folder, we can close Outlook Data File. To do this, click on the “Mission Control Vivid Display” item at the bottom, and select “Close “Mission Control Vivid Display””.

STEP 5: Checking the imported task folders Lastly, we need to check that the folders imported properly. Go up to the new Vivid Display folder, and click the small black arrow to the left. This will expand the folder to show three items – the Agenda Template, Never Doing Now List, and Not Doing Now List.

Click on the Agenda Template. You should see a blank task list with a custom view. Look at the top bar, and find the “Current View” section (usually in the middle of the bar) – the selected view should say “Agendas”:

The sections should look like this:

Next, click on the Not Doing Now List. The “Current View” should show a different view here, labeled “Not Doing Now List”:

And, the sections should look like this:

You can also check the Never Doing Now List in the same fashion. If you’re not seeing these custom views, it’s possible that they did not copy over correctly. If this is the case, they’ll need to be set up manually. You can do that by visiting this page, and going through the steps of of the Outlook Manual Setup Guide: http://www.missioncontrol.com/outlook

SETTING UP THE SHORTCUT BAR Outlook allows you the ability to create multiple folders to help organize Outlook items like emails, tasks, etc. Although handy, this feature usually leads to the creation of dozens of folders, making finding and organizing information difficult to manage. The folders are represented in the Folder List view in Outlook. Although you can rename created folders, you have little control as to how they appear in the list. Often this means you are browsing through several folders to get to what you want. At any one time, only about 20% are actually “in use” meaning constant searching can be inefficient and visually noisy. BENEFITS USING THE SHORTCUT VIEW The Shortcut bar allows you to create your own interface of Outlook, adding links to access the most often used items at any one time. Links in the shortcut bar can be custom named and organized in to “Groups” in any order. To access the shortcut view, click the Shortcuts icon in the left sidebar.

Make a New Shortcut Group by right-clicking the title of an existing shortcut group.

Within a Shortcut Group, you can make individual shortcuts by right-clicking on the title.

Arrange your shortcuts as shown below to access all areas of the Mission Control System.

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Note: It’s advisable to create shortcuts to your most frequently accessed email folders