Archive for the 'GyroQ' Category
Friday, July 6th, 2007
Felix Nyffenegger has created a freemind powered site (wikimindmap.org) that lets you browse wikipedia on a topic like the Tour de France in mindmap format.
Felix was nice enough to set up a wikimindmap that provides a real-time view of the content in wiki.activityowner.com. It is not on the main wikimindmap site menu, [...]
Posted in Dashboard Templates, GyroQ, MindManager, MindReader, ResultsManager | No Comments »
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
The activityowner.com libraries for GyroQ Tags, ResultsManager Dashboard Templates, and MindManager macros have been moved over to the wiki. The lists have been sorted out and cleaned up a bit, so if you haven't looked at them in awhile, now might be a good time:
ResultsManager Dashboard Template Library
GyroQ Tag Library
MindManager Macro [...]
Posted in Dashboard Templates, GTD, GyroQ, MindManager, ResultsManager | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
The current MindReader "o", and "q" tags make use of a temporary MindManager map to transfer the text entered at the GyroQ prompt into the underlying SAX basic macros. This adds a second of processing time and a distracting flash of the temporary map.
While waiting for the GyroQ version 7 upgrade, [...]
Posted in GyroQ, MindReader | 10 Comments »
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
This is almost too embarrassing to post. Working with MindReader this afternoon while doing my GTD weekly review, I noticed the script was running a bit sluggishly while processing items. I decided to go into the SAX basic code and see if I could speed it up a bit. I made [...]
Posted in GyroQ, MindReader, ResultsManager | 12 Comments »
Friday, June 15th, 2007
Based on reader feedback, one of the more popular GyroQ hacks on ActivityOwner.Com is the Put it in front of the Door script that enables you to setup your computer to automatically unload your GyroQ queue and refresh your ResultsManager dashboards each morning.
The new ResultsManager Ribbon-interface that Gyronix created for MindManager 7 makes it [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, ResultsManager | 3 Comments »
Monday, June 11th, 2007
While reviewing my ResultsManager Daily Actions Plus Dashboard in MindManager this evening, I noticed I had accumulated quite a few "next actions" in the "no context" branch. This branch has usually be relatively lean since I began using MindReader heavily. Putting things in context is a key aspect of GTD.
I [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, MindReader, ResultsManager | 20 Comments »
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
The recent ActivityOwner.Com review of MindManager 7 mentioned that a big downside of the new release was a bug that prevented the file operations in MindReader macros from working correctly when called by GyroQ. After some experimenting we've found that if file closure commands are moved to the end of the macros, then [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, MindManager, MindReader, ResultsManager | 27 Comments »
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Kevin posted a question on the Gyronix Message Board looking for a method to compile an event log using GyroQ. He suggested using an approach analogous to that used by GyroTimer and even provided a mockup of what he is looking for:
As I mentioned in Top 20 Uses of GyroQ Revisited, the GyroTimer gys [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, MindManager | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
As most ActivityOwner.Com readers are likely aware, Mindjet is launching MindManager 7 on May 31st. Marc Orchant and Chuck Frey have enumerated the new features of the program in detail, so I won't go into them here. I would note that the upgrade pricing from version 6 has not been announced, [...]
Posted in Getting Started, GyroQ, MindManager, ResultsManager | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Over time I've customized the GyroQ "You've Got Mail" script to send me three separate email messages each morning based on ResultsManager dashboards that have updated overnight– one for deadlines, one for targets, and one for next actions.
This morning I noticed that while the targets and deadline messages were showing up fine, the [...]
Posted in Getting Started, GyroQ, MindManager, ResultsManager | No Comments »
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
The recording of Gyronix CEO Nik Tipler's webinar on using GyroQ is now available. The audio isn't all that hot, but the content is good, particularly around 32:45 if you are a MindReader fan :-).
On a related note, David Allen's long-time tech guru Eric Mack has a MindJet Webinar on Wednesday March 28th [...]
Posted in GTD, Getting Started, GyroQ, MindManager, MindReader | No Comments »
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Hans poured over the MindReader code and made several great suggestions, additions, and bug-fixes. For example, MindReader now adds a gray "blob" icon if it does not a responsible resource or an action verb to use in assigning a context. The big addition though is of a new GyroQ MindReader "s" tag. [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, MindManager, MindReader, ResultsManager | 26 Comments »
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
The recent GTD Phone Home post described a method for automatically capturing voice input from Jott and/or email input sent to mailbucket into a ResultsManager in-tray using the MindManager rss smart map part.
The method works surprisingly well except for one hitch — each time you refresh the rss map part, it re-imports all the topics. [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, MindManager, ResultsManager | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
How are you ever going to keep your inbox empty if GyroQ keeps putting an updated plain text outline of your ResultsManager "Daily Action" dashboard in it every morning?
That problem aside, web-based email is now nearly universally accessible from home and work, and increasingly by mobile phone. Always having an updated next-actions list [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, MindManager, ResultsManager | 30 Comments »
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Early last month there was some discussion on the GTD_MindManager Yahoo group brainstorming about ways we might be able to communicate into ResultsManager remotely someday using email or smartphones. Tommy pointed out a blog entry on using mailbucket to email entries into MindManager using the RSS smart map part.
Around the same time a post [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, MindManager, ResultsManager | 3 Comments »
Monday, March 5th, 2007
One of of the perennial questions that comes up when using ResultsManager, or almost any personal productivity system for that matter, is how to handle with repeating items. Many repeating items (e.g. daily exercise, weekly review, etc) are important items that you want to "put in front of the door" to develop [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, MindManager, ResultsManager | 29 Comments »
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
Mindjet has announced an upcoming Webinar by Nick Tipler from Gyronix on using GyroQ. Registration info is available here.
See background info below:
Event:Having trouble staying focused on your project?
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:00 am,
Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)
Panelist(s) Info:Nik Tipler, CEO Gyronix
Duration:1 hour
Description: Taking Control of Interruptions [...]
Posted in GTD, Getting Started, GyroQ, MindManager | No Comments »
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
One of my favorite GyroQ tags is "cna" (Copy Next Actions), which is described in the "Next Actions to Go" post. It takes my current ResultsManager "Daily Actions" dashboard (typically the one I've regenerated overnight), finds the next actions branch, and copies them to the clipboard as a plain text outline for pasting into [...]
Posted in GTD, Getting Started, GyroQ, MindManager, ResultsManager | 4 Comments »
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
A earlier post on ActivityOwner.Com introduced a GyroQ tag to mark a task complete in a dashboard or map and save a copy of the task in a year/month/date-sorted "completed" map. The tag works well, but can be a little slow as the "completed" map grows in size. While GyroQ's selection [...]
Posted in GyroQ, MindManager, ResultsManager | 4 Comments »
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
[Note: Gyronix is implementing some improvements in how they store tag information in the GyroQ.ini file. This may require you to reinstall some activityowner.com tags that rely on inline macros if you install the pre-release version 1.9.3. If you get an error, just go to the tag library and paste fresh packed-text [...]
Posted in GyroQ | 3 Comments »
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
The QuickTime video loop below shows the GyroQ MindReader "process current topics" ("c") tag acting on selected MindManager topics. Based on the keyword matches the macro sees in the user's MindReader configuration map, it performs a GTD "process" step by setting the activity context, due dates, icons, priorities, category, area, resources, etc. [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, MindManager, MindReader, ResultsManager | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
The most popular post on the ActivityOwner.com site is an early review of the pre-release version of GyroQ. The “Top Twenty Uses for GyroQ?” blog entry speculates on how users might ultimately choose to populate the 20 tag slots the software provides. Since that time, the Activityowner.com tag library has accumulated over [...]
Posted in GTD, Getting Started, GyroQ, MindManager, ResultsManager | 6 Comments »
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Last week's post on "GyroParser-let GyroQ read your mind" demonstrated an initial proof of concept of a GyroQ tag for parsing the text of an action item to try to infer the destination map for it, its due date, its context, and the relationships (e.g. waiting for, owed to, contact about) associated with it. [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, MindManager, MindReader, ResultsManager | 47 Comments »
Friday, January 26th, 2007
In my quest to create a generic "GyroParse" (now called "MindReader"), the first order of business was to create a generic and configurable way to open the destination MindManager map using GyroQ based on keywords in the queued item. After a few iterations, I converged on the following approach, which can be implemented [...]
Posted in GyroQ, MindManager, MindReader | 2 Comments »
Saturday, January 20th, 2007
"Buy eggs tomorrow!"
"Call Bob next week",
"Read Getting Things Done someday"
Longtime ActivityOwner.com readers may remember an early post that speculated about the possibility of having GyroQ parse the text of an action item to automatically infer things like context. due date, priority, etc. This could act as a time saver, allow one tag to [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, MindManager, MindReader, ResultsManager | 10 Comments »
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
If you use a series of linked maps and dashboards to navigate around your projects and tasks, you can quickly find yourself with a dozen maps open at a time, even though you are only actively editing a couple of them. The GyroQ "clo" tag described in this post enables you to clear [...]
Posted in GyroQ, MindManager | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
The recent "Put it in Front of the Door" post described the use of GyroQ and the Windows scheduler to automatically refresh a set of Gyronix ResultsManager dashboards using the GyroActivator language. On a related note, a recent post on the Yahoo GTD_MindManager forum inquired about the possibility of adding a MindManager menu [...]
Posted in GyroQ, MindManager, ResultsManager | No Comments »
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
If you were away from your MindManager maps for the holidays, you might have missed having ready-access to your ResultsManager "next actions" lists. While having your lists with you is a canonical GTD prerequisite, you can often get away without mobile copies if you spend most of your time in the context of [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, ResultsManager | 6 Comments »
Friday, December 15th, 2006
How do you start your day?
(1) Reviewing your daily actions and/or doing a mini-review
(2) "Doing email" and emergency scanning
(3) Browsing the web to see if there are any new posts on activityowner.com
Even if you have the best of intentions of pursuing option 1, it can take several minutes to pull up MindManager, find your Map [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, ResultsManager | 37 Comments »
Friday, December 1st, 2006
Does "last action" clutter make your "next action" maps less effective?
In a post on the Yahoo GTD-MindManager group, Colin raises the question of how to best handle completed tasks in MindManager maps:
Has anyone here struggled with the best way to track a history of completed tasks? When it comes to finite projects, it makes sense [...]
Posted in GTD, GyroQ, MindManager, ResultsManager | 13 Comments »