Stop opening Outlook just to check your calendar

Away from work, I am a Mac and iPad user. If I want to check my calendar, I open a calendar app. If I want to check my email, I open an email app.

At work though, I’m locked into the standard PC-based, Microsoft environment. So if I only want to see my calendar, I have to open Microsoft Outlook and that runs the risk of me seeing (and subsequently getting distracted by) my email inbox.

In this blog post I show a solution that I came up with to let me easily see just my Outlook calendar without being distracted by my Outlook inbox.