Comments on: How to have your contexts and contact them too

By: Curtis N. Bingham

Curtis N. Bingham — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:33:31 +0000

Very cool trick on the first.last notation for using a full name!

By: mazzorca

mazzorca — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:34:48 +0000

cool thanks for the insights!.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:29:39 +0000

You can get first and last name by entering it as first.last. The script will replace the . with a space.

The way the script loops through the mindreader.mmap map, it can only recognize one instance of each attribute (category, context, etc). It would take some programming to get around that and prompting would get in the way of non-attended use.

The trick I use is to use different verbs for different contexts. For example I use "buy" for an "@errand" purchase and "order" for an @web purchase. In your example I might use "visit" or "drop off" for @errand and "pay" for @web.

By: mazzorca

mazzorca — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:20:15 +0000

Hi, I been using this group of scripts for a few day and are great. Just two questions.
When I parse a verb like "email to" there is someway to pass the first and last name? If there is no way to delimit that, maybe you can add to recognize a _ in the space, and delete later.
Another question is, can I add two contexts to one verb and later the macro prompt a question witch is the right context to that? let's say "pay" can be associated to @web or @errand. So when mindreader recognize this, it ask where it belongs?. I know is much to ask. But they are just ideas to make it even more useful soft.

Thanks.

By: BillS

BillS — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:23:08 +0000

I'm open to change. I agree I am spending time advancing rather than "doing"; only about 25% legitimately. I'll try this reformat & just add the other topics back in if I miss them.

Thanks again AO

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:30:43 +0000

Hi Bill — The "deadline" picture was more about pointing to the "open template button".

Yes, I have actually moved away from using the DADP (daily action dashboard plus). I liked it initially, but found I spent most of my time endlessly advancing overdue "targets" and neglecting other aspects of the dashboard. I instead now work from the faster vanilla dashboard and use the branches off the "next action analysis", which has the near-term target information under the "finishing" branch and the "to be processed" under the "foresight" branch. The NAA script provides some incentive to deal with other "review" issues on the dashboard.

I'll try to build this update into DADP soon, in the meantime, you have a tutorial on how to do it :-).

By: BillS

BillS — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:49:13 +0000

AO,

Thank you for the update. I will try this out & here's some things I noticed already:
1. In this blog entry you're showing the "Deadline" image. Should be "My committed Next Actions…"
2. "To be Processed" & "Targets I'll Hit" in the original DADP are missing. Change of logic or just forgotten?

I usually don't get "To Be Processed" showing up, but is useful when it does. And "Targets I'll Hit" is very useful.

IMHO,
BillS