Comments on: 2008 GTD Challenge Results

By: A different approach to marking tasks complete » ActivityOwner.Com

A different approach to marking tasks complete » ActivityOwner.Com — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:28:09 +0000

[...] has been collecting on his 2008 Next Action Analysis Contest prize with some macro requests. This weekend he asked for a MindManager macro that could take a [...]

By: Six Components of a GTD Review » ActivityOwner.Com

Six Components of a GTD Review » ActivityOwner.Com — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:47:55 +0000

[...] 10.0 on my personal maps and also got my work maps up over 9. If only I had got here during the contest [...]

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:23:25 +0000

Hi Ken — Comments on any blog post will do. I read them all. The "how to best read your mind" post is the most suggestion-intensive entry:

http://www.activityowner.com/2008/01/18/mindreader-how-to-best-read-your-mind/

By: Ken Florian

Ken Florian — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:04:21 +0000

Where, how can I post an idea for a new mindreader feature without disturbing the content of a blog post on another topic (as I just did!)

Thanks,

Ken

By: Marco van Laerhoven

Marco van Laerhoven — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:55:54 +0000

Whow, I've been working with the macro for a couple of weeks now – and it is really putting me back on "the GTD train" again !! Improving the score (currently at 9.79 8-D) not only is fun, it is also helpful in finding area's that will improve my plan.

And, best of all, I find that I'm achieving more goals and performing more actions than before – and that was of course the purpose of the whole setup.

With all your tools installed, I feel I now have a foolproof system to capture my thoughts/actions/mails/ideas/whatmoredoyouhaves – which reduces the stress of trying to cope immensely. And this of course translates into feeling better, achieving more and being in control.

I salute you for your work, Sir!

I would be very interested in seeing how you and other people are performing your reviews … which dashboards do you use and how do you go about ….
Maybe this is a good topic for a future Blog entry :)

Thanks again for your help in streamlining my life,
Marco

By: Node Glue » Blog Archive » Zero #4

Node Glue » Blog Archive » Zero #4 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:18:29 +0000

[...] to become so unmaintained that it's no longer a trusted system, but a black hole (thanks to ActivityOwner for that reminder). I simply must get better at being honest about moving things to [...]

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:01:53 +0000

Perhaps when the Olympics come around we can form teams. The Spanish, Australians , and Americans are well represented thus far. We just need to coax the British to post some scores :-).

Another alternative is a wiki page were we self-report each week for the year with the prize going to the best sutained effort.

By: Jose Miguel Bolivar

Jose Miguel Bolivar — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:57:50 +0000

Thanks AO.

That's definitely a fantastic tool that helps a lot to stay focussed on your system and keeps you from piling "not-so-next" actions unrealistically on your daily dashboard.

My main learning from using the tool is that I should move to "someday/maybe" everything that I am not 100% committed to. The benefit is twofold: on the one hand my daily actions dashboard is not as crowded as it used to be and, on the other, it forces me to be much more disciplined on running weekly reviews.

My current score is 9.41 and I have managed to keep it over 9.00 for the last several weeks, which gives me a sort of "quality" indicator for my overall system.

Running further contests, e.g. a Summer one, will be fun and hopefully we will have some new participants daring to share their scores.