Marco

I added same day (=0) to the starting date branch.

Not sure why you have two copies of the mru script listed above. they both appear to do the same thing. The links certainly point to the same place

Not sure what you mean by procrastination – that is a word that I am trying to eliminate from my lexicon! I often use the m tag to tidy up stuff that I may have only partially entered via GQ so it is often missing dates etc. If something appears on my dashboard as to be done today I always do it – today, tomorrow or whenever I get around to it!! LOL

Thanks again
Cheers

I think the best way to implement this would be to retain the "natural language" approach and parallel the RM "edit activity" dialog — e.g. look for keywords "1 day before", "2 days before", "1 week before", "2 weeks before", "1 month before".

So "Put out the trash Friday starting 1 day before" gets start date 05July and due date 06July. This can also be entered using brackets to remove date info:
"Put out trash [Friday 1 day before]".

For your… procrastinating…I mean "rescheduling"… use of the "m" tag, you could just type "control-Q m Thursday 1 day before "

I went ahead and updated MindReaderNLP.mmbas to do this. You need to download this:

http://www.activityowner.com/macros/download.php?macroname=MindReaderNLP.mmbas

and also install and run a new gyroQ tag (mru) to add the keyword branch to mindreader.mmap:

http://wiki.activityowner.com/index.php?title=Mindreader-mru-packed-text

Let me know if this works for you.

Any way to modify the M tag to take two dates and set both start and due dates.

As an idea – maybe parse an input like : tomorrow|monday and split them into the separate dates.

????

I often will synchronize my "home" map directory onto a memory stick for use on my work laptopi when I travel using the Windows "briefcase", and I've been surprised how well things continue to function.

Thanks

http://www.activityowner.com/scripts/mrm_packed.php

The sequence {send; run:macro:activedocument.selection.cut;map:new;select:central;text:mra;notes:2;run:macro:MindReaderOpen.mmbas} returned an error:

Message from MindManger 7:
A runtime error occurred while executing the macro \\infinity05\users\CBrown\My Maps\GyroActivator-macro.MMBas

Thanks!

Everything you describe is as I'd expect although obviously not ideal for you :-).

I added a little more background on the MindReader tags to the wiki to try to make it clearer as to what each one does::

http://wiki.activityowner.com/index.php?title=MindReader

The "c" tag is meant to "MindRead" the "current" selected topic(s). If you select a topic called "buy eggs", it will convert it to an activity with context "errand". It is not meant to be run when you don't have any maps open. Looks like some improved error trapping is called for here to handle that situation ("q add error tapping to c tag code someday").

To get "o cb-work" to work, you need to add a keyword and link to the mindreader.mmap file under the "links" branch. The first portion of the "mra" tag is designed to assist in that or you can do it manually.

What I think you are seeing is not the cb-work map but the temporary "message" map that MindReader uses to communicate from GyroQ into the macros.

MindReader isn't smart enough to automatically associated keywords with maps (although that's probably a good one for the drawing board).

When you used "s", "q", or "o" with a keyword that MindReader doesn't recognize, it by default sends the topic to the "Daily Capture Map". That explains your last issue.

Give things another try and let me know if you have questions.

If I type in "O CB-Work" (where cb-work is an existing map), I see a lot of things flash up, including cb-work temporarily, but then it closes, and leaves open my default map, the MR config file, and the GyroQ Daily Capture map, for some reason.

Highlighting an existing entry on a map, and keying in "S CB-Work" cuts the topic from the current map (again, I see cb-work flash up, but then go away), but then pasts in into the GyroQ Daily Capture Map (but I don't see anywhere that this particular map is configured to be used for anything).

Much of this may simply be Novice don't-know-how-to-use-the-products stuff, but I can't at this point discern from what's me and what's the software!

Thanks for any assistance!

The error you are seeing has been reported before by Mal and others and noted in the FAQ:

http://wiki.activityowner.com/index.php?title=MindReader_FAQ

We never got to the bottom of it. The solution would be to comment the script to death to determine exactly where the problem is.

The easier solution to getting started quickly is for you to just download the sample mindreader.mmap into your "My Maps" directory:

http://www.activityowner.com/maps/ao-parse/download.php?mapname=http://www.activityowner.com/maps/ao-parse/mindreader.mmap

and then edit the notes of the "context" verbs to suit your preference. You can add additional map links, verbs, and contacts by running the "mra" tag.

Let me know if this doesn't get you unstuck.

I'm running Windows XP Pro/MM Pro 7.0.429/Results Mgr 2.7.8/GyroQ 1.9.3

Thanks!

1. Verbs need to be at the very beginning of the sentence to get recognized except for @context keywords, which can show up later. "errand" alone would work since it is at the beginning.

2. The @context needs to be put in the mindreader map topic text as @web, @errand, etc (with the @ included). The actual "context" in the note field associated with this doesn't have an @.

3. In order to pass the context information into ResultsManager, it has to go via the "category" field with an added @ symbol.

Does that make any sense?

I have managed to get it working this morning though by reading the macro code a little more closely.

According to your post you need to enter @errand, @ call etc to add the context.

I read the code to say basically that it should parse the string and look for a word that matches a context (as defined in mindreader.mmap) and then ADD @ to it and set it as a context.

When I tried simply entering

errand

it worked fine.

So I figure that you should leave the @ out of the Gyro Q entry.

Comments?

Cheers
mal

Mindereader ignores capitalization.

Thanks go to Curtis for the syntax map!

I understand it OK but cant get the @context function working. The"m" tag works but does not make any change to the context. It does change date etc.

I tried the m tag with the following string in GyroQ

@errand tomorrow

the 'tomorrow component was actioned but not the @errand (or even @Errand)

Any thoughts?

Also – does mindreader worry about capitalisation? is Errand the same as errand?

ps -thanks for the syntax page – you beat me to it!

Cheers
Mal