March 22, 2010 at 7:59 pm
· Filed under GTD, Next Action Analysis, ResultsManager
A ResultsManager user asked by email: "What template should I use for getting a dashboard just of high-priority projects and results that are tagged with Area X? Is that still the Next Actions by Area and Context? Or is there a better one? For example, today I’m dedicated to working just on the Area X [...]
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March 20, 2010 at 11:27 am
· Filed under Mark Task Complete, MindManager, MindReader, Next Action Analysis, OutLinker, ResultsManager
Reviewing my ResultsManager review dashboard this morning I found just a couple of projects related to my "blog" area and a long list of someday/maybes. I thought it might be useful to solicit reader guidance on where it would be most valuable for you to focus. Basically I'm wondering whether to focus on discussing, enhancing, [...]
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March 13, 2010 at 4:40 pm
· Filed under GyroQ, ResultsManager
Nik Tipler recently did a webinar with the GTD Study Group on using ResultsManager and GyroQ. You can watch the video of the webinar here. It has also been added as a link on the wiki ResultsManager Resources page.
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February 25, 2010 at 12:32 am
· Filed under MindManager, MindReader, OutLinker, OutLook
Often times the first step in processing an email request is to define a dedicated project map to attack it. The latest version of OutLinker has a new send to "New Project" map option. This will create a new MindManager project map, attach the message, message text, and/or link, mark it up based on your [...]
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February 24, 2010 at 9:38 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized
Back in 2007 I briefly experimented with setting up a set of discussion forums to work along side the wiki and the blog. At the time it seemed like spam was going to get out of hand, and there were better alternatives, so I turned it off. Since that time the activity levels on the [...]
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February 18, 2010 at 9:38 am
· Filed under MindReader
I noticed this morning that MindReader didn't have a default keyword for setting the due date of a tast to be "next quarter". I thought it would be useful to put up a quick post on how to do this. 1. Open ao\mindreaderconfig.mmap (or just type "o mapmap"). 2. Navigate to the "dates" main topic. [...]
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February 16, 2010 at 10:03 pm
· Filed under Mark Task Complete, MindReader, OutLook
I'm working on improving my Next Action Analysis (NAA) score this week and am faced with a "Project Needing Next Action" penalty for my "Create Macro to Sync up Dashboard to OutLook Task List" project. This was a reader requested script I finished up a few days ago. It looks like the next action it [...]
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February 16, 2010 at 11:35 am
· Filed under OutLinker
OutLinker received a major overhaul this weekend with several new features added and its interface cleaned up. Option to pick from 5 archive folders Fields for up to 9 contexts and 20 tags (use for context, area, category, destination keyword, etc) Ability to process OutLook 2007 RSS folders Ability to create appointments with message as [...]
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