How many times has the Outlook reminder popped up on your screen only for you to hit the Snooze button to be reminded again in 5 minutes. How can you possibly be productive while hitting the snooze button repeatedly throughout the day? This isn't exactly an earth-shattering geek tip, in fact most of you likely already know how to change the default reminder time. I'm just really tired of getting this popup dialog on my screen, telling me that I have a meeting in 15 minutes... so it occurred to me that I'd be a lot more productive without this nuisance. (of course, I'd be even more productive if I didn't have to waste my time at the boring meeting) If you are setting up the boring meeting, you can change the reminder time when setting up a new appointment by checking the Options section on the ribbon.

To change the default across all appointments, open up Tools \ Options and change the Default reminder drop-down:

Change it to 5 minutes, and you don't have to use Snooze ever again. Just click Dismiss, and go to your meeting. Try not to fall asleep, or at least learn to doze with your eyes open.