Ocassionally the script will get into trouble and require outlook to be restarted to clear the problem.

I'm at 23,116 processed over the last 10 months between home and work. I routinely process my sent mail at work so that adds to the volume. It works out to about 110 messages per work day. That's probably not atypical for knowledge workers these days and doesn't include "bulk" mail which I filter off to to a separate folder. What is striking to me is that if I'm away from my desk for a few days, the backlog works out so this average is sustained.

I'm pleased the script is relatively robust and stable over past several months, but most happy that it works well enough that I haven't had the urge to tinker with it and avoid real work!

In theory there could be a dedicated macro button added to the message toolbar to replace "send" with "sendandprocess" that sent the active message and then ran it through outlinker.

Unfortunately the software is keeping me far too focused on my day job/projects to get sidetracked into programming this at the moment :-).

I'm thinking that the next post on the site could be a laundry list of features/ideas that others might want to jump in and contribute to.

Thanks

Can you replicate the problem consistently with certain messages? If so, it would be useful to see the message and/or scontent causing the problem. If we can figure out what is happening, we should be able to filter it out before it gets to the point of causing the error.

I don't think a delayed move to the archive would be feasible. MindManager needs the hyperlink address of the message to stay constant and moving it after the link has been established in mindmanager (or sent on its way via the queue), would break it. I may not be following what you are suggesting so feel free to clarify.

The error is always triggered in the WriteTextToFile function, in the line
a.WriteLine (sContent)

After I changed to not be using GyroQ, the problem no longer occurred – but I'd like to switch it back as it saves a lot of time …

If it helps, I can send you some screenshots and a sample of sContent when it crashed – I believe this happens when there are attachments in the message.

The reason for the previous behavior was that I initially was looping through the messages with a "for each message in selection" loop so I didn't have a simple way of storing a pointer to the next message. The program subsequently changed to use a "for i=1 to totalitems" loop so its easy to store the next entry.

What I wrote last week was that I had just completed a pass through my inbox using "n" and "p" (mostly "n") rather than "s". RD/RAD are working better, but not quite there yet. I am not being returned to the top of the list now, but I am also not being returned to the next email in the list after the one on which I used RD/RAD. I believe I am being returned to the message after the last time I used RD/RAD – but am not positive on this yet.

I like your "throwing out the junk mail" analogy – that is exactly what I am doing.

As for my processed totals, I am still in the Minor leagues as compared to you. My totals are around 2,900. I have not yet gotten to processing my sent mail and I have not really implemented GTD in my home life – though I am pretty sure my wife would be happy if I did…

Both of those are fairly long term Someday/Maybe items for me. I know I would benefit from doing them, but just can't seem to pull the trigger yet.

Finally, I do not use the "g" function. While I do have a gmail account, I cannot (or at least am not supposed to) access it from work and I've already spoken about my lack of use of GTD in my personal life. Again maybe someday…

Ron

The problem here was I literally hadn't incorporated rd/rad into my routine use (even though I routinely "r" then "d") and wasn't aware this problem was persisting in these commands. The problem is that the pointer to lastentry has to be set back to point to the "previousentry" befor the program exits. Getting this to work right was one of the bigger challenges in outlinker development as the pointer to a deleted item doesn't come back as "= nothing" so other methods need to be used to determine when things disappear. I think I've got "rd" and "rad" working correctly now. Give them a try.

What are you "processed" totals at? I'm at ~7700 at work and 2800 at home for a total of 10,500 in last 5 months (~100 messages/work-day). I always fully process my sent items at work so that is not all incoming traffic.

I'm also curious if you use with gmail and utilize the "g" command?

I have noticed one other minor issue with RD and RAD now that they are functioning for me. If I am processing a list of emails and use one of these functions, I am returned to the begining of the list and not to the point I was at prior to doing an RD/RAD. The "I" function on the other hand returns me to the item I was working on, not to the begining of the list. The "I" functionality is what I would expect to happen.

This is an issue for me because I tend to make two passes through my emails when I have a long list to process. The first is just to weed out those emails that I do not have to do anything further about – "A" or "D" (my personal favorite) – or those that I can address quickly – "I". Those that I have to do something about or think about for more than a few seconds I skip "S". I realize that this is not pure GTD and violates the "touch it once" rule, but it works for me.

In following this process I often end up with 10-20 or more items that I have skipped as I progress through my list. If I then RD or RAD an item I am forced to skip through all of those items again to get back to the point I was at – not a big deal, but not what I would expect/like to see.

Thanks again for all of your incredible work on these tools and your generosity in sharing them.

Ron

Debug points to line 134:
If Not jumpahead Or ((obj.EntryID = lastentry.EntryID) And Not gone(i)) Then

A minor issue in Outlook 2007 — when reviewing a big batch, some but not all messages only display their header with the body showing up blank with the loading ribbon bar continuously pulsating. If I skip these messages and return to them in a later batch they may display properly and others that were showing will not display the next time around. Also when I use "i" to interact the message body shows instantly.

I ran the registry update. Any ideas?

Can you check to see if the gyroqpath entry in the outlinker settings notes folder matches the location of your gyroactivator.exe:

http://wiki.activityowner.com/images/9/91/Outlinker_settings.jpg

By default it should be set to "c:\program files\gyronix\gyroq\". If that is a match, it means the program is encountering an different error while trying to run the progam and we'll need to look into it deeper.

Let me know how it goes.

Thank you for all your efforts — this is really some amazing stuff.

I performed the upgrade and now I am having an issue. whenever I attempt to send an email via outlinker to Mindmanager, the message fails to get to my daily capture map. I do get the following error message

"Make sure you have the path to GyroQ set correctly in your mindreader.mmap options. I've triple checked this and the downloaded a whole new AO pack thinking maybe if I started from scratch it would work, no luck.

If I submit directly from Gyroq, messages are reaching the daily capture map.

I am on the following versions:
Outlook 2007 12.0.6300.5000 SP1 MSO 12.0.6213.1000
Gyroq 1.9.4.7
Mindmanager 7.1.388
Resultsmanager 2.7.9 build 279.2
The April 1st version of the Outlinker Macro
A freshly downloaded AO pack
Any ideas on how I can get outlinker working again?

I welcome whatever folks can contribute in terms of documentation improvements on the wiki and suggestions. I handle all actual code changes so I'm fully up to speed on how things work and can ensure things fit together and don't get too complex. I welcome code snippets/edits but can't promise they will be folded into main versions . Several people are fully versed in in the code and have made great contributions to it over time.

So, maybe you should just skip the first part of my post :$