You can tweak a lot of options in Jello Dashboard using the settings screen. I guess you realized that the tags and folder you create are not shown anywhere in your Outlook folders. All of these data are stored into the settings Journal entry. Maybe it seem a bit inconvenient, to use a journal entry […]
Tag: jello-tips
Tip: Hyperlink shortcuts in Outlook 2007
After reading some user reports about not being able to add Jello Dashboard as a homepage to Outlook installations working in MS Exchange environment, I’ve decided to find a workaround using the shortcuts collection of Outlook. The main idea was to create a shortcut for the Jello Dashboard main file, into Outlook, so that there […]
Tip: How to run two instances of Jello Dashboard at the same time
Installing Jello Dashboard is a straightforward process. Although the whole process is semi-automatic, the installer and the setup utility somehow manage to do the job. I can tell this from the number of installation related questions from users which dropped to zero. However, installing Jello for running two instances of it at the same time […]
Tip: Adding google gadgets to Jello Dashboard’s homepage
I got some requests back to the version 4.00 of Jello Dashboard for digital clocks and gadgets into the homepage. Later, as I was coding for the new version and created the new homepage I though of running a couple of tests using google gadgets without any real expectations. Then for a strange reason and […]
j-Note export utility
Being a Nokia/Symbian mobile user, I’m faced with some problems when it comes to task synchronization between my Outlook installation and mobile phone. You can have your full task list into a Nokia phone as a long list, something really useless when you’re dealing with a 50+ item list. Of course contexts or tags are […]
Jello tips: Optimize speed
Many users are facing problems with the start up speed of the Jello Dashboard which can be really slow in many cases. Microsoft Outlook is a memory consuming application, and the Dashboard does nothing more than using its public object model which in many cases can be slow to query large blocks of data. If […]
User story: How I use Jello
This is a guest post from one of Jello users, HumbleOpinion. I believe it will be a useful resource for a lot of you, since Jello can be used using various setups to manage GTD and personal workflow. I had an epiphany the other day about how to use “getting things done” and Jello in […]
Hacking Jello Dashboard settings
Many times due to bugs or incompatible imports the user gets a runtime error when loading the dashboard. I got many emails from users who had this happened to them (that’s why it’s still in beta) and I got very worried about my code! The main reason for this errors is the use of forbidden […]
Work with the Taglocity plugin
There is a very nice plugin for Outlook 2003 (english version) which adds tag management into Outlook with lots of screens and a logic to auto group your items based on your previous tag choices. The good thing is that you can use it along with the Dashboard. There is one small difference though. The […]
Uninstalling Jello Dashboard
Many of you requested instructions of how to uninstall the Dashboard. First of all, till now I wasn’t able to create an automated script to do this and I’m sorry about that but I’m not a professional programmer. First of all you can safely remove your JelloDashboard folder (usually located into your Program files folder). […]