Who wants a Personal Assistant?

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September 13, 2007 on 8:06 am | 16 Comments

Check out the Personal Assistant module, which packs many of the most frequently used modules into one little box. Six buttons give you the at-a-glance info you need throughout the day. Like today’s weather forecast or a peek at your horoscope (admit it, you look every so often!).

And when you hover over a button, you get a preview. So if you’re looking to tighten up your page, the Personal Assistant can save you some space.

The default view is shown above, but our team knows that choice is a wonderful thing. So you pick the buttons that appear. Swap out Lottery for Sports. To choose your buttons, click the cog icon in the upper right to see your choices. From there, you can customize further to get exactly the info you want.

Play around with this one – we’re pretty sure you’lll find it handy.

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Comment by MitchHellman
2007-09-13 08:44:28

What I’d *really* like to see is a way to incorporate Yahoo! Widgets into the My Yahoo! Page.

 
Comment by bcullman
2007-09-13 09:13:14

It would be nice if you could choose a default button, one that always stays open.

 
Comment by bbba80
2007-09-14 09:58:57

I would like to be able to put my brief case on the personal assistant. I don’t need the news or the weather since it’s already on my front page. The widgets is a good idea too.

 
Comment by Macknezie
2007-09-15 20:12:05

I love yahoo its the best email ever!!!

 
Comment by Susie
2007-09-20 09:14:41

I like the idea of the personal assistant, but not the reality. I would rather see either the message center returned, or incorporated with the weather OR give us options to make less than 6 buttons or more things we’ll actually use. I, for one, am not interested in reading horoscopes, nor am I interested in the lottery.

What I would have in the personal assistant are email (with an icon when I have mail), weather (with the hover preview, I do love that), calendar (with a preview of important things for the day, maybe?), task manager, and a notepad. Wouldn’t it be great to see your To Do list right there?

 
Comment by DDmitch10
2007-09-20 20:25:41

I like the personal assistant, but it is only good if it has the things there that you use. Hopefully you will keep adding things to it. I would love to see notepad there and the thoughts of a “To Do List” there would be great as someone said. Brief Case is mentioned allot. I would not use it but it does not matter. It is a option. That is what made “My Yahoo” so good and hopefully still will is it’s…OPTIONS.

 
Comment by The wizard
2007-09-23 02:33:04

I’d like to see the ability to size the module width. The old way fit perfectly if I make my browser window smaller. The new requires to set the browser window full screen. Not good.

 
Comment by bre-bre
2007-10-13 12:53:07

wow that is way better than the old one i absolutly love the new personal assitant

 
Comment by bev j
2007-10-14 15:51:53

Please bring back my old yahoo page. With the new page there are so many things on it that I never use. I’m not very computer literate and don’t know how to get rid of what I don’t want. I agree with Susie who wrote on September 20, 2007.

 
Comment by R.D.
2007-10-15 14:15:21

I deleted PA because I could not customize it to remove horoscope and other useless (to me) items. Let me decide what goes into the PA.

I want my mail with “new mail” notification back. Mail makes sense on the PA and when I get to choose what goes on PA I will immediately add mail, hopefully with an icon that changes or some “new mail” notification capability.

 
Comment by onehotRSS
2007-10-15 16:52:38

R.D. you can customize the PA. You can read more here: http://myyblog.com/blog/2007/10/11/improved-personal-assistant/

 
Comment by viviennerousseau
2007-10-16 15:16:08

I’d like to see Y! messenger in the PA on My Yahoo. I’m glad that it’s in My Yahoo now.

 
Comment by gai mazziotta
2007-10-17 04:12:13

I would like the Personals Mail as an option in the Personal Assistant, so that, like the “regular” mail, I would be able to see if I have mail rather than open up the Personals site to find out………

Thank you for your consideration

 
Comment by kentada
2008-07-09 11:36:57

The lack of “new mail” notification on the Personal Assistant unless you’ve recently logged into mail makes me want to fire my personal assistant.

 
Comment by WM
2008-08-17 08:01:40

Does anyone know how to delete personal assistant or has it been inbedded

 
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