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 [...]
A post last month described an approach for setting the agenda for a weekly 1:1 meeting using ResultsManager. The meeting agenda template, available in the Dashboard Library, attempts to operationalize the GTD review approach into a MindManager Map by walking the manager/direct-report through the process of discussing activities that have become overdue, [...]
Elizabeth recently posted on the Yahoo GTD_Mindmanager group on her use of MindManager to review the Incompletion Triggers list from David Allen's book Getting Things Done. The trigger list provides prompts to jog your memory of open loops that are "on your mind" that you need into translate to projects and next actions. She [...]
The GyroQ tags forGyroTimer have been updated since the initial post. See the GyroQ Tag Library for updated code and packed text. This version adds project specific logs to complement the overall summary log. It also provides for both starting and ending comments for each entry. The export format is now comma-delimited [...]
Here is a GyroQ application that might find its way into your top 20 uses of GyroQ. Do you need to track your time on projects or areas in order to maintain personal balance or for reporting purposes? Perhaps GyroQ can help…
Lacking the discipline such a tool might provide, I spent a [...]
GyroQ allows you to attach notes and hyperlinks to the topics you are sending to your MindManager maps. The hyperlink command has an "auto" option that can magically extract a hyperlink from the a body of text automatically. These options can be handy if you are copying the content of an email associated [...]
After a solid round of beta-testing and customer-driven improvements, Gyronix launched their GyroQ product today. Among other things, it has utility as a "GTD Capture" tool. Gyronix is following a novel "invitation-only" approach similar to what Google used in launching their Gmail service. Visit the "GyroQ Invitations" page for more [...]
With ResultsManager and GyroQ, you have the option of accumulating your incoming items to in-trays in individual project maps, "area-of-focus" map-central pages, and/or the default "My in-tray" map. If you take the distributed approach, then it is harder to know if you have processed and emptied all your in-trays at the end [...]
In its default mode, GyroQ lets you quickly unload plain vanilla action items "out of your head" and into a main "My In-Tray" map for later processing. While this is a great utility, it can lead you to accumulate a long list of generic and unrelated action items. With each addition to [...]
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GyroQ works "out of the box" in a very straightforward manner, allowing you to quickly capture ideas and tasks and then send them to a single "Daily Capture Map" for later processing. After using GyroQ for awhile, you may find that having a single "Daily Capture" map accumulating dozens [...]
GyroQ, the soon to be released MindManager add-in from Gyronix, has the capability to quickly queue up action items and ideas for delivery into mindjet maps. In the most simple form, you enter action items over a few hours and finally hit the "Send Queue" buttom to deliver the action items to a [...]
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