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Class Calendars from iCal files in Outlook 2007
Written by Erik Paul Gulbrandsen   
Saturday, 13 January 2007

 

I just figured out the coolest feature for Outlook 2007 which is helping me stay organized.  Since I skip all lectures and listen to them on Noteservice, I often get lost as to which lectures I've listened to and which ones I've actually studied.  Outlook 2007 keeps it all in perspective, in an easy way.

 

The first thing to do is to make "class calendars".  Back before MedEd took over the calendars, I used to do them by class.  Meaning, I made 5 or so calendars a quarter, one for each class.  MedEd doesn't do it this way, so, I just found a workaround.  Follow these easy steps:

 

Create your "principles of medicine" calendar.  In the calendar view, go to File|New|Calendar.  Name it "principles" and put the calendar wherever you like.

 

Now, import the 2009Q6 ical file into Outlook.  If you use the "import an .ics file" setting in Outlook, it will give you the option to import it into the default calendar or into a new calendar.  You can decide which to do.  If you choose the default calendar (I don't), follow these steps.  Go to your default calendar and search for PM (principles of medicine).  I'm searching my "principles" calendar, since I already made the switch.

 

 

 

 

Now, it should look like this (without the funny colors--called categories).


 

Press CTRL-A to select all of the events with PM in the title.  Right click in the area and click "move to folder".  Then, find the "principles of medicine" calendar (I called my principles) and put it in there.  Magically, you are done!  You now have a calendar that only contains the Principles classes.  To share it as ical, go to File|save as. 

 

Do this for your other classes, and you will have multiple calendars for those classes!

 

Now, select your calendars from this menu:

 
 

Now, click on the Arrows that point to the left in the tab.  This is "overlay" mode.

  



It should look like this, now.  The nice feature about this is that I can now click on a course, and it will become more pronounced than the other classes (notice how much brighter PM is versus path and pharm?)

 


 

 

When I switch to Pharm, look what happens to Principles.



 

 

Beautiful, isn't it? 

 

You may be asking why I do this, since, google calendar is so good?  The reason is that it keeps me better organized.  First, if you open the calendar event, say, Unstable Angina and non-ST elevated MI PM, you will see there is a field to open the "Meeting Notes".

 

 

 

This will then link to the lecture in OneNote!  This is simply amazing!  To make it even better, I use "categories" to signify how many times I've read the packet.  Right click on the event in the calendar view, and then point to "category".  I've customized all of mine, but, black means I have yet to do anything with it.  Red means I've listened to the lecture and nothing more.  Yellow means I've been through it a second time, and green means I've done it three times (more than enough). 

 

To get the file to link to OneNote in a manner that will work for us, you have to do it in a systematic fashion.  First, OneNote MUST be open to the notebook and section that you wish to print to (it needs to be unlocked, too).  Second, in ON under Tools|Options|Outlook Integration, you need to specify that New meetings are to be placed in a new page on the current section.  Second, you need to change your send to ON settings in Tools|Options|Send to OneNote to "print outs" need to be placed on the current page of the section.

 

Now that you have made these changes, I open the powerpoint.   Copy the title.  Open the event in Outlook.  Paste the title in the Subject (leaving PM at the end!).  I then hit the save button on the ribbon (not the save and close button).  I then hit the "metting notes" button.  I then Print the powerpoint. 

 

DONE!  The most amazing organization is now yours!

 

erik

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mbrown (Registered) 2007-01-13 12:26:00

Sweet, I never noticed that little onenote icon in outlook!!!!
Hanh (IP:24.116.73.xxx) 2007-01-13 19:36:32

Did u have to manually typed in the subject for that day? I followed the instruction, but it just show "PM", not "PM-hypercholesteremic drug like yours. Thanks!!!
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