While I like that it sends you proactive suggestions (such as directions and how long it will take to get to
the next appointment on your calendar), there's still no easy way to view texts, messages and anything else on demand.
Outlook 2007 introduced the «To Do Bar» — a panel
on the right side of the screen when you're looking at the Inbox — that shows you the
next couple of
appointments on your
calendar as well as any tasks or flagged e-mails that you may have.
Ben Schorr: Oh yeah, date calculations, so natural language dates are really important, a really handy feature to be able to use, a lot of people get frustrated because they need to either it's for a task or they are flagging something for follow - up or maybe it's an
appointment on the
calendar and they want to say, well, I want to do this
next Thursday but I don't know what
next Thursday is so then they have to pull up the
calendar or look at the screen, the date navigator, to figure out the
next Thursday is the 18th, okay, great.
If a widget can keep you from going into an app to do something simple like see your
next calendar appointment or change tracks
on a song, then a widget can save you time, energy, and can absolutely be worth it.