It seems like every day, there’s some niggling little problem that obsesses me and prevents me from doing whatever it is I actually do for a living. This morning, the problem was figuring out how to organize my life with to-do-lists and calenders. Now, whenever I’ve encountered these sorts of issues in the past, I’ve said to myself, “why don’t I post the solutions to these problems on my blog, so that if anyone else is trying to accomplish the same thing, they might stumble across my blog and find some helpful hints?” And then I’m selfish and lazy and keep my information to myself.

Well, not today, friends. Here you have my first ever attempt at a primer that may or may not someday simplify your life. The jury is still out on whether or not it has simplified mine.

Please note: this helpful primer is only for people with PCs. People with Macs probably already have some simplistic solution at their fingertips that accomplishes the same task in a much more elegant and impressive way. Also, this post is bound to be pretty uninteresting to anyone who reads my blog for my heelarious stories, so I’m posting the bulk of it after the jump.

The problem: I want to be able to enter something on my calendar or to do list without having to open up Outlook and click around a bunch of boxes.
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