by Lawrence
23. October 2009 10:59
I've been looking for ways to get more information in to What-Am-I-Doing.
The first step was to grab information about the files locked by the target application.
A significant piece of the puzzle that was missing was time spent in outlook. Email consumes about 30% of my time, and I'd really like to be able to allocate this to projects.
The solution (for me at least) was to create an addin to Outlook that uses the event triggerd when a selected item changes to identify the selected email item. Once I have the item, i can get the sender, recipient and subject of the email. I use and API call to send this information to What-Am-I-Doing.
Using the "Other Info" field of the rules, I can automatically allocate time to a customer / project because I'm dealing with an email that is from that customer. It doesn't matter whether I'm reading an email, or writing one. It also doesn't matter whether the email is being read in it's own window or in the preview pane.
If you want to download the addin, you can get it from the what-am-i-doing website. You have to register / login to download it. I guess it's not much use to you if you're not running the app anyway.
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