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Archive for the 'GTD' Category

How to have your contexts and contact them too

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

While I haven't been at 10.0 level for awhile, I've been happily Getting Things Done (GTD) using MindManager, ResultsManager, GyroQ along with the Outlinker, MindReader, Next Action Analysis, and Mark Task Complete macros. In general I've found running the NAA script on the daily action dashboard points me at the right widgets to be crank [...]

Six Components of a GTD Review

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Things have gotten a bit quiet in "gyrospace" lately. Perhaps this is because folks have given up on their new year's resolutions or moved on to other tools. I'm hoping it is because we are all successfully focusing on Getting Things Done rather than tinkering with our systems and surfing blogs.
After [...]

Logging Next Action Analysis Results

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

The Next Action Analysis macro has been updated to log your scores into comma delimited notes on a mindmanager log map each time you run it on your ResultsManager daily action dashboard. The central topic note contains the date/time stamp, the overall score, and each dimension's score. The branches contain tables with the [...]

OutLinker 2.0

Monday, March 31st, 2008

It is actually more like version 122, but "2.0" sounds better. It has been about four months since my last post on OutLinker and I wanted to let folks know that several improvements and bug fixes have trickled onto the wiki since then.
The macro now defaults to routing transfers to MindManager through [...]

GTD and MindReader Q&A

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Chuck Brown posted some questions on GTD and MindReader as a comment on AO-Pack blog entry. I thought answering via a post would make sense as it provides some elbow room and an opportunity for others to chime in.

… I understand that GTD is not a set of absolute rules, but tools to [...]

2008 GTD Challenge Results

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Back on New Year's day I proposed Five Metrics for assessing the state of your GTD system. The idea was to assess the Freshness, Focus, Feasibility, Foresight, and Finishing (5F's) of your current next actions and combine these into an overall score.
The Next Action Analysis macro calculates and sorts these metrics [...]

Mark Task Complete Updated

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

If you are using Mark Task Complete, note that it has been updated so that it now logs repeating task completions in the floating "completed" topic and also moves completed topics from the plan, even when updated from the dashboard.

Four ways to add tasks to your maps from your phone

Friday, February 15th, 2008

In a message on the GTD-MindManager Yahoo group, Juan asked about ways of getting tasks into MindManager from his new PDA. I thought it might be useful to cross-post a reply here for posterity:
Here are four options for getting items into your maps from a mobile device.

Use bitbucket.org to mail yourself task [...]

MindReader turns 1, gets its braces taken off

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Although the first prototype emerged earlier, the first production version of MindReader made its debut 1 year ago last Sunday. I'd like to thanks to all who have helped take it from its early 14-word vocabulary to the large collection of keywords it recognizes today.
Recently we've been debating how to best read [...]

Outbox Zero

Friday, January 18th, 2008

If you are using OutLinker you may have achieved Inbox Zero for the first time in awhile. Don't stop there.
While your inbox contains a mixture of spam, bulk mail, info-only cc's, and perhaps 10% actionable information, your "Sent Items" will tend to have a much more concentrated set of …

commitments [...]

Next Action Analysis Updated

Monday, January 14th, 2008

The Next Action Analysis tool's report has evolved quite a bit over the last two weeks (see picture below) since the initial post (5 metrics for assessing your GTD System).
Here is a summary of the changes:

Added more targeted recommendations for the specific metrics with the most room for improvement [...]

Here's how I use MindReader in Practice

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

[Editor's Note: Jose Miguel is a the MindReader power user and has driven the development of many of its features. In this guest post, he describes how he came to use the tool and how he uses it day to day. A Spanish version of his post is also available. ]
Until [...]

Así es como uso MindReader en la práctica

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

[Nota del editor: José Miguel es el poder MindReader usuario y ha impulsado el desarrollo de muchas de sus características. En este puesto de invitado, él describe cómo llegó a utilizar la herramienta y la forma en que lo usa día a día.
Una versión en Inglés está también disponible]
Hasta que descubrí

OutLinker Unlinked

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

OutLinker is a Microsoft Outlook Macro for rapidly processing as set of Microsoft Outlook Tasks, Appointments, and Messages and transferring the content/links for the items you choose into MindManager for organization and tracking.

The initial version required MindReader and GyroQ, which narrowed the potential user base quite to a small niche of power users. [...]

Next Action Analysis 2008 GTD Challenge

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

2007 was a year we largely focused on improved capturing and staging of tasks with tools like MindReader, Mark Task Complete, and OutlLinker. Perhaps 2008 can focus on improved weekly review and action? To kick it off and to provide some group moral support for getting things done, I'd like to propose [...]

Next Action Analysis: 5 Metrics for Assessing your GTD System

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

I stood by the side of the road a few weeks ago waiting for AAA to show up to change my flat tire. In my PDA I had "Identify day I can get to dealer to replace balding tires" on to do list, where it had sat for several weeks. Here I am [...]

Be prepared for your meetings in 2008

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

The latest version of OutLinker will let you select a set of upcoming Microsoft Outlook appointments and process them into MindManager so that ResultsManager can remind you to get prepared for them. The default next action is set to "Prepare for /meeting subject/" but can be modified. The deadline for the [...]

Outlinker Update

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

I made a few big improvements to the OutLinker macro today.

It now stores its configuration settings in a notes folder so it is easier to upgrade/configure without editing code. It will also prompt user for the archive store/folder if it doesn’t find them.
For fun it counts the number of messages you have processed [...]

Getting to Zero

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Outlinker is evolving quickly as it gets some use and the suggestions trickle in. I used it to successfully drain my Gmail inbox to zero for the first time using Microsoft Outlook this morning and made several edits along the way.
The macro now lets you select the messages you want to process [...]

OutLinker Update: Process your Microsoft Outlook inbox with one click

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Getting In to Empty: Getting "IN" to empty doesn't mean actually doing all the actions and projects you'v collected. It just means identifying each item and deciding what it is, what it means, and what you're going to do with it". (David Allen, Getting Things Done, Page 119).
David Allen stresses that [...]

A concise map of GTD components from a master

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

The top item in my blog map "in-tray" is a December 1st item: "Share Marc Orchant's Getting Things Done Map on Blog".
I had come across Marc Orchant’s MindManager vingnette after reading about it on Pascal Venier's Productive Workflows blog. I was struck by how his simple "Getting [...]

OutLinker: A new tool for draining your Microsoft Outlook inbox

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

When was the last time your inbox looked like this?

The holy grail of Getting Things Done (GTD) is routinely emptying your various Inboxes to zero and processing the context into projects and next actions. Tools like GyroQ can help you capture ideas and process your paper in-trays, but if you are working in the [...]

Mapping the MindReader Configuration Map

Monday, November 5th, 2007

One of my long-time "Someday/Maybe" tasks has been to draft a blog post on the MindReader Configuration Map. I figured I'd push this off my aging task list with a quick post this evening and follow up as needed.
Although MindReader is designed to work "out of the box", the mindreader.mmap file provides [...]

Next Action Roulette

Monday, November 5th, 2007

My ResultsManager Daily Action dashboard has gotten a bit bloated over the past year with a subset of tasks and projects that are lingering. In theory a good GTD Weekly Review would help address these, but I've been playing with some alternative strategies to break the log jam.
I now use the GyroQ [...]

Building a Custom ResultsManager Dashboard

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

This week I got an inquiry from Sigurdur on whether there was a "Hot Action" ResultsManager dashboard available. I thought it would be useful to capture the process of creating one in a blog post to review the seven steps to creating a custom ResultsManager dashboard using MindManager 7.
Sigurdur's request was [...]

Add tasks before, after, or in parallel to selected task

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

In my ongoing quest to stake claims on as many single letter GyroQ tag names as possible, I've added the following three new tags to MindReader:

"a" inserts a task "after" the selected task (inserts a parent task)
"b" inserts a task "before" the selected task (adds a child task)
"p" inserts a task in "parallel" with [...]

Fire the oldest 10% of your tasks

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Is the "Review dashboards for aging tasks" action item you added to your list after reading a recent post becoming an aging task itself?
Even if you are capturing and completing dozens of tasks each week, a couple of them will invariably be "amorphous blobs" or have something about them that leads you to not complete [...]

Is this really the next action? — new MindReader "b" tag

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

One of the central themes of GTD is learning to recognize when a task on your to-do list is not really the "next action". David Allen typically points out that "Get New tires" needs to be preceded by "make appointment for tire replacement" and that preceded by "find phone number for garage".
Mal [...]

David Allen on Huffington Post

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

The latest newsletter from DavidCo pointed out that David Allen is now writing a weekly GTD article on the Huffington Post. His 2nd contribution, Think Smarter by Capturing your Ideas is absolutely required reading for GyroQ and MindReader users.
"How many thoughts and ideas do you have daily which represent useful [...]

MindReader Syntax Updates

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Jose Miguel has made several great off-line syntax and code suggestions for MindReader that have led to several changes over the past few weeks. The morning's new version of mindreaderNLP.mmbas has several new features:

You can now specify any @context, ^area, resource@, or ~category using the syntax in this sentence. MindReader [...]

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