In Part 1 I set up a placeholder project map and gave myself a next action of brainstorming on a path forward. If this task had lingered it would have showed up in my Daily Action dashboard as an action with "no context". At this point I'd either work on it or add to my "@maps" context using the MindReader m tag (control-Q m @maps [enter]) for future processing when I had some quality time at my desk. If it lingered further it would show up on my "Next Action Analysis" report as not having a time estimate, at which point I'd probably assign it a "15m" duration and wonder why I hadn't gotten to it, particularly if it lingered long enough to make the "aging tasks" list :-).

Given I had some time, I put MindManager into brainstorm mode:

and set a timer of 10 minutes to bang out ideas that came to mind and that had been mentioned in the blog comments:

I could also have just done this in the project's in-tray, but for this I wanted to give myself some elbow room on a temporary map to sort things out. In a group setting 5 or 10 minutes is usually sufficient to get a good amount of ideas on the table. The key is to allow enough time for the extroverts to pour out there ideas and allow a bit of a lull and prodding to get diverse views from the quieter folks in the room.

Charles had a great idea of creating a "what do I do when I…" cheat sheet for the entire MM/RM/GyroQ/MR/Outlinker system. This addresses broader issues than the scope of this effort. Rather than create a project out of it using the "nm tag" right away, I decided it was a roughly a two minute action to put a placeholder wiki page in place and post a blog entry to get the initiative started. A reader has already jumped in and started adding to it.

I typically skip over the next step in MindManager's brainstorm mode "Enter Group Names" and just end the brainstorm at that point. If you have had a healthy session you may have dozens of floating topics accumulated. I usually find it easier to just drag all these topics up to the central topic and then start to sort them out.

The next step is to sort things out as you might in a traditional "Yellow sticky" group exercise. In this process other ideas come to mind and natural "this comes before that" sequencing emerges:

The next step will be to pull this outline back to the project map and start translating it to an actionable plan. Before I wrap up for the evening, I go back to the project map and use "Mark Task Complete" to mark the brainstorm step complete.

This optionally logs it in the reference branch of the map and to an August completed actions map.

Finally I select the empty "plan" topic and use the MindReader "b tag" to add the next step to the project so that I'm reminded to return to it (and avoid having the project show up on my "projects lacking next actions" list):

In this case I remembered to add the @maps context and 15m time required keywords.

Coming Next: Part 3 — Planning

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1. MindManager Project Management Part 1 – Definition
2. Using GyroActivator to automatically mark up your GyroQ activities
3. Project Reporting

I've pasted in his initial outline of questions to a new What do I do when I … wiki page. I'll get started on this, but please jump in and add your questions and/or answers. The wiki isn't difficult to edit and its easy for others to fix up any mistakes you make so jump in!

Picture of starting page on wiki:

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I believe that certain creative/semi-ADD personality types are highly drawn to the use of GTD and MindManager for getting organized. The approaches and the tools can take a situation like this and help define a constructive and creative path forward when faced with a daunting problem. I thought it might be use this episode as a case study to share how I use the tools and along the way get reader input and collaboration on solutions.

This issue clearly isn't a "two minute action" and doesn't seem like something I can delegate, defer, or "trash", so it's a "project". If I was very busy at the moment and I was becoming aware on the issue via an OutLook email message, I would just use Outlinker on a email related to it and send the email into my GyroQ queue with an "isproject" keyword so that it would show up later in my dashboards as a project needing a next action to be defined. If the next action were clear I might include the first step as well using the << operator. In this case I know this is going to be a drawn out project that will require a dedicated map, so I'll toggle to the MindReader "nm" tag (new map tag) by hitting Control-Q to bring up GyroQ and then typing "nm" to toggle to the nm tag to set up a project map for it.

The first step is "To begin with the end in mind", and describe an ambitious desired outcome: "GTD tools working well with MindManager 9 next month"

I'll also tack on some quick markup using Mindreader keywords to set this as a priority 3 project I own in the "blog" area of my life:

"GTD tools working well with MindManager 9 next month [R:AO P3 blog]"

When I hit enter, the tag will first prompt me for where to save the map. I'll save it in my 2010\blog folder so that it will be automatically picked up by my map central link to that folder when I run dashboards.

The tag next prompts for what the next action is for the project. In this case I will take a convenient short cut and define the next step as "Brainstorm next steps and subprojects for MM9 compatibility".

Finally, the tag prompts as to whether I want to assign a keyword to the project map. Because this will likely be around for awhile and I anticipate needing to send ideas and email messages into the map, I'll assign a keyword that comes to mind "mm9project".

Now anything I send to MindManager with GyroQ or OutLinker will be directed to the in-tray of this map if I include the text mm9project, and the keyword will automatically be removed once processed.

In order to remind myself get back to this soon, I'll use the "m" tag to set the target date for the brainstorming as "next week" and I'm left with map below.

Coming Next: Part 2 — Brainstorming

Ideally we'd brainstorm together on a collaborative map using Catalyst, but I don't have an account set up that I could use, so if you have ideas on how to proceed, what needs to be done, subprojects, solutions, etc., just shout them out in comments below and I'll include in my brainstorming map. Remember 1st rule of brainstorming — don't judge others ideas.

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2. MindManager Project Management Part 2 – Brainstorming
3. Set Relative Due Dates on a Project Map Template

If you are a regular user of ResultsManager, and particularly if you are regular user of MindReader, I would recommend staying with (or moving back to) V8 until this can be addressed by Mindjet or somehow worked around. For example the MindReader "ndd" (no due date) keyword no longer removes due dates. Changing a start or due date with the "m" tage will likely unintentionally shift the other date by a similar amount.

GTD-MindManager post by Nick Duffill:

A brief update for MindManager 7 & 8 users considering moving to MindManager 9,
and for MindManager 9 users who have ResultsManager, or who are using
MindManager for project management.

MindManager 9 has introduced some changes in the way that date information is
handled, which have implications that you should be aware of.

First, it seems that you cannot set a date which is not in the map calendar. So
if the default map calendar only shows Monday to Friday as working days, you
cannot set a date on a topic for a Saturday – it will change to the next working
day by magic. The map calendar must be modified before other days can be used.

"Duration" has changed from being the time that a task will take, to being the
difference in working days between start and end dates. The start date, duration
and due date are now locked to each other. If you change any one, then one of
the others will change to maintain their relationship (subject to the working
calendar rules too). This applies through the software interface as well as
through the user interface, which is proving problematic for ResultsManager use.
The dates that a topic gets might or might not be the ones you entered in the
ResultsManager edit dialogue, for the above reasons. ResultsManager does not
apply the same rules, and at present cannot discover what the rules are through
the API.

It is only possible to have topics with only one date on them under specific
conditions now. Generally, if a topic is assigned one date, then MindManager
will ensure that the other one is defined too. We know that a lot of MindManager
users only use the due date.

Lastly, if you change the duration of a task, the due date may get automatically
moved back to suit the duration. If you use due dates to keep track of stuff,
keep an eye on this behaviour. As mentioned, when you edit one of the dates, the
other might move without you noticing.

MindManager 9 has moved from being a fairly flexible system for keeping track of
dated tasks, to something that is more locked down and mainly designed to
support the built-in task management. ResultsManager depended on a flexible
platform, so some users are experiencing problems with the new regime. In
ResultsManager, the start date has always been the first date on which you
wanted to see an action come up in dashboards. This option has effectively gone,
and "start date" now means "the last day that a task can be started, if it is to
be finished on time".

If you have MindManager 8 and are using ResultsManager at present, and rely on
dated tasks in your maps, then it might be worth hanging on for date handling to
be addressed in a MindManager 9 service pack, unless the benefits of MindManager
9 outweigh this.

Best regards
Nick Duffill

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2. My Committed Next Actions Toward Success
3. Daily Actions Plus

OutLinker needs to point to the new type library, which you can do manually or just run the new installer for v9.

I'll be away from my computer until later in August, so if your system is working for you, you might want to hold off on the upgrade for a few weeks.

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The ResultsManager multi-map checker has several handy features. You run it on your map central and it seaches down through all the linked maps and constructs a tree, which is marks up with flags that denote broken links, maps with completed projects, and a few other items.

By fixing broken links you can ensure all project information flows to your dashboard. By archiving fully completed project maps and the links to them, you can improve the speed by which your dashboard regeneration completes and reduce clutter in your folders. I typically just create a "done" folder in each sub folder and move maps there as they are completed. Make sure to close the map before you try to move it. If you have directly linked to the map, you want to clean that up as well or it will show as a broken link on the report.

If you organize your maps by year, you would hope you have quite a few of your 2009 maps complete at this point!

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2. Mapping your Maps
3. Logging Things Done

You could use the next actions by area and context dashboard template in the way you describe but I would recommend a simpler approach (and minimize the risk of you falling into the rabbit hole of custom dashboard tweaking).

The workaround I would use for this is to follow the map central strategy I described earlier this year but go one step further and put the maps you care about in this area in 2010\AreaX.

Then create a map central that points only to that folder (or run dashboards on just that branch of a more general map central). That will enable you to use a vanilla daily action or review dashboard as is. The "Next Action Analysis" script run on daily action in this way will give you several breakdown lists (tasks by priority, time available, projects by priority, etc) that can be used instead of generating a separate custom dashboard to get them. The m2t (map2table) tag/macro run on these branches can give a nice tabular view of things.

Make sure you move any relevant items from your general daily capture map to a map in this folder first.

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2. Committed Projects and Next Actions
3. Creating a ResultsManager Dashboard Template

I would appreciate it if you could please click here to take a brief Survey Monkey survey or comment below.

I've recently cleaned up the layout of the site with a new site overview map and new "related post" links added to the entries. I hope it will help folks navigate around the posts on their topic of interest.

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3. search.activityowner.com

You can watch the video of the webinar here.

It has also been added as a link on the wiki ResultsManager Resources page.

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This version also improves the display of the archive folder name and store. See screen shot of outlinker interface.

This function mimics the mindreader "nm" tag.

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Have a question/suggestion/problem — give it a try: http://forum.activityowner.com

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1. Open ao\mindreaderconfig.mmap (or just type "o mapmap").
2. Navigate to the "dates" main topic.
3. Add a topic with text "next quarter"
4. In the the notes add – dateadd("m",3,date)

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There is a new macro installed by the MindReader installer and also available on the wiki MindManager Macro Library that will do a basic syncronization of tasks between your ResultsManager Daily Action Dashboard in MindManager and your Microsoft Outlook task list.

The macro (ao_nextactions_to_outlook.mmbas) does the following:

1. Delete previosly transferred or exported items from oulook unless marked complete
2. If marked complete in outlook, run mark task complete on them in the daily action dashboard.
3. Transfer new items from Outlook into MindManager via MindReader.
4. Leave them behind as well but add "ao_transferred" into note to mark them as transferred
5. Export next actions from daily action dashboard to Outlook task list. Set basic attributes like context, due date, and priority.

Note that this is designed specifically for use with a ResultsManager Daily Action Dashboard.

This basic macro isn't smarter than described above, and will not detect changes in attributes (beyond completion) to sync back to MindManager. Attempting to do anything fancier than this is is buried deep on my GTD someday/maybe list.

I've never had much success in attempting to do this type of synchronization with other "built-in" methods. This provides some basic functionality that might be of use to those who need it.

If you want to have ready access to your next actions from outlook or your smart phone, this can be a good strategy. This also allows you to capture new actions in Outlook and feed them in. For 1-way transfers into MindManager from OutLook, OutLinker provides a more robust approach.

You can run the macro manually or incorporate into the "Put it in front of the door script" for overnight processing.

Next Action: "Waiting for reader feedback on Outlook Task Syncronization".

NAA score +0.1 :-).

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3. Next Actions to Go

• Option to pick from 5 archive folders
• Fields for up to 9 contexts and 20 tags (use for context, area, category, destination keyword, etc)
• Ability to process OutLook 2007 RSS folders
• Ability to create appointments with message as attachment
• Greatly improved ability to correctly delete Gmail IMAP messages from multiple accounts
• Macro scripts to delete, archive, mindread sets of selected messages
• Streamlined user interface

Give it a try (download).

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The latest version of OutLinker has a new routine (AutoOutLinker) that you can place on your toolbar. If you select a set of messages and process them with this command, they will be sent to the selected topic in the active map.

You can install the latest version by visiting the download page. Once you have installed the program, you can add the command to your toolbar by first running the Outlinker program (to enable macros) and then selecting "Tools, Customize, Macros" and dragging the command up to your toolbar. There are also commands for directly deleting or archiving a large set of messages.

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The new "ao_select_complete_and_mtc.mmbas" macro on in the mindmanager macro library and added by the new install will do as requested by Juan. You can manually set tasks complete (including repeating tasks) and it will process them in 1 shot. You just need to make sure you run it before you refresh the dashboard. Juan envisions having this macro run as part of the "Put it in front of the door" script.

If you take this approach, you want to avoid using the built-in ResultsManager "send changes" command before running this macro as it will permanently set repeating tasks complete if you set them 100% complete in the dashboard.

I figured I put up a quick post in case others wanted to test it or had ideas on how to best implement approach.

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2. Mark Task Complete Updated
3. Repeating Things Done

A MindReader power user suggested by email…

Is it possible to add an extension to the nm tag to prompt to automatically run the k tag i.e. do you want to create a new link to a destination map – y/n?

I use nm quite a lot but often forget to go and create a new keyword as the next step and so waste my time always having to check to see if I have create a keyword before I can use it….

This is a great suggestion and has been implemented. The new version is implemented as a macro that can be run directly or using the nm GyroQ tag.

The nm tag sets up a basic ResultsManager project map in MindManager with an in-tray, reference branch, and plan branch. Destination keywords are very useful for maps you plan to utilize frequently. Once set, you can use the "o" tag to quickly open the map based on a keyword, the "s" tag to send topics from from one map to its intray, or the "q" tag to queue items in GyroQ to be sent to its in-tray.

The easiest way to install the new tag is to download and run the latest version of the . Make sure you have it overwrite your GyroQ.ini file so you get both the macro and the new tag.

You can also download the ao_new_project_map.mmbas macro from the MindManager macro library into your "My Maps\AO" directory and paste the packed text for the nm tag into GyroQ.

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1. New GyroQ "k" tag: Set destination map keywords
2. Choosing the GyroQ Destination Map on the Fly
3. GyroQ: Open maps, documents, web pages, and applications using keywords

When you sit down to get too work, the last thing you want to do is to tie up MindManager with a several minute dashboard refresh as this is a perfect recipe for going off on some web distraction.

One way to get around this is to make use of your computer's task scheduler to automatically refresh your dashboards on a regular basis. This approach was first described 3 years ago in in the "Put it in front of the door" post.

I recently got this running again on my new Windows 7 computer and did some work to clean up the script and make it easier for others to implement. The script is now installed as part of the MindReader Setup program and can be run by running the "rfd.bat" file in the "My Maps\AO" directory. MindReader and Mark Task Complete have also been updated to work better with multi-computer synchronization.

The script also does several other things now such as running next action analysis and a recently added capability of saving the dashboard in html format. If you are a hard core ResultsManager user, this script is for you.

For more information, see the "Put it in front of the door" page on the wiki..

Please comment below with questions/suggestions/problems.

Happy New Year,

AO

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While this approach does allow you to navigate down to particular maps from the map central, it adds a fair amount of activation energy for adding a project map and often will lead you to just clutter central maps with several projects. In my experience, giving a project "elbow room" of its own map will often catalyze the process of Getting Things Done (GTD).

Did you know that instead of linking out to individual maps from your map central, you can also organize your maps by just link to a folder (e.g. "My Maps\2010") and ResultsManager will automatically process all the maps in that folder? Using the approach you can add one folder and one link for 2010 today, and then just use the GyroQ "nm" tag to quickly create new project maps as projects arise. I used this approach in 2009 and found it much easier than detailed map by map links.

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Hi all,

I am using the In-tray dashboard from Gyronix' ResultManager and AOs
"In-Tray.mmbas" macro to create a map that shows a) the actions in the in trays
and b) the links to the In-Trays. This way it is easy to have direct access to
the relevant in-trays / maps and work on it during weekly review.

I now found out, that the tasks in the in-tray are not selected by this dasboard
if the already have a category assigned. The result is that topics in the in
tray and the in-tray topic itself are not shown if all the topics in the in-tray
have a category (which can easily happen when you use OutLinker and have the
possibility to easily define categories when emptying your Outlook inbox).

I have no idea on how to change the in-tray categories (in-tray* and process) or
the dashboard filter to get all topics of the in-tray in the dashboard.

Any ideas?

Many thanks and best regards

Stefan

I got some clarifications from Stefan by email to better answer this question. He is running the "ao_full_intray_projects" macro from the activityowner macro library on a modified version of the Gyronix "Sweep and Review" dashboard. The Sweep and Review dashboard looks for activities with the category "process" as an indication of them being children of an in-tray topic.

The problem is that a topic only inherits the "process" category if it doesn't have its own category assignments. In-tray items (pre-mindreader) would typically not have markup so it normally wouldn't be an issue.

Nick Dufill has a good summary of inheritance properties on his beyond mindmapping website.

I don't think there is a way to "fix" the sweep and review dashboard to get around this. Here is how I would approach getting this type of information:

First, I highly recommend making your in-trays "sub-projects" rather than activities. The main reason for this is that it allows any project lacking a next action (but having an in-tray) to show up on dashboards as a project needs a next step. The filter that looks for projects lacking next actions isn't smart enough to realize the in-tray is not actually a next action.

If you have all your in-trays as sub-projects, then it would be possible to write a macro on the daily action dashboard that looks for call-out topics attached to next actions that are in-trays. The Next Action Analysis macro does in order to penalize for letting in-trays get too full or old.

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2. Daily Actions Plus
3. Are your projects "projects" and are you committed to them?

There are a number of options and I wanted to solicit readers for input. I think the best way to do that is via the wiki.activityowner page on synchronization. I know several readers have researched this and come up with solutions that work for them.

Please edit in your thoughts and experiences on the wiki or comment below. Editing on the wiki is easy and just requires a quick account creation step that helps the site avoid spam.

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1. Put it in front of the door in 2010
2. Synchronizing MindManager and OutLook
3. MindManager Project Management Part 1 – Definition

Thank you in advance,

The "Put it in Front of the Door" script is a great way to keep your ResultsManager usage alive and well. I must admit it fell off my windows scheduler with an operating system upgrade awhile back and its time to bring it back.

I've been using MindManager and ResultsManager for over 4 years now and have never heard of anyone successfully using OutLook Task syncronization with both. I tried in my very early days and moved away from it quickly.

If you think about it, it is a quite complex series of operations to ask for. First ResultsManager harvests tasks out of dozens of maps and summarizes on a transient dashboard. Then MindManager needs to syncronize those rolled up task copies with an OutLook task list and figure out what is new/done/deleted in each. Then ResultsManager needs to push some of that completion information back to underlying maps. Too many things can go wrong.

In practice I use the OutLook Task List as as dedicated input flow to MindManager rather than something it populates or syncronizes with.

At work I send and receive about 120 message each day. I drag my sent items into my inbox so conversation threads are in same place. I use OutLinker to process these messages. If something seems like a short term item I push it to the task list using the "OutLinker Lite" functionality. For example if I expect a reply in a week or so or expect conversation to continue. Most items tend to be "waiting for X next week". OutLinker puts the task due date in and associated person in the "company" field. I will also sometimes capture into task list directly on blackberry. Every so often I run OutLinker on the task list and push lingering items to MindManager maps using MindReader. So in practice I work from my daily action dashboard and from my outlook task list. Not ideal but better than no list!

If you wanted to do the reverse and dump your full Next Action list to the OutLook task list, that would be relatively easy to do with a macro. You would just need to empty it each day before hand or perhaps the macro could look for duplicates and delete them. I just wouldn't want to pull back from this list.

At home what I do is use the "mna" (Mail Next Actions) GyroQ tag to send my next action lists to my gmail account as emails by context (see "You've got Mail…from ResultsManager". This gives me ready-access to my lists at work and on the road. I don't worry about checking them off remotely and sync-ing back.

Questions? Suggestions? Experiences?

Comment below.

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This is not part of the setup program yet, so in order to try it you need to copy the macro code from the wiki and paste it into "My Maps\AO\ao_attachment2link.mmbas". You can run this macro directly after selecting topics or launch it with GyroQ using the new "a2l" tag (packed text).

Users can now send outlook messages to maps by checking the "attachment" option in OutLinker and then thin out maps later using the code above. This is hot off the press so proceed with caution and report any bugs.

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1. Auto OutLinker
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Whether you are following Habit 2 of the Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People or the "Next Action" mindset of Getting things done (GTD), is all about learning to identify and break down the sequence of individual steps to get from point A to point B.

I spend most of my time interfacing with capture tools (GyroQ or OutLinker), processing the input through MindReader, and then using Next Action Analysis to review and prioritize activities harvested from MindManager by ResultsManager. For better or worse, I actually spend relatively little time planning in the underlying project maps themselves.

This works fairly well with one exception. I typically only capture the "next action" associated with an idea or email. If it is not linked to a project or subsequent action and is subsequently marked complete from a dashboard, I sometimes forget to enter the subsequent step and risk having the project fall off my radar.

The latest version of MindReader can help address this issue with its new capability for it to recognize and process sequences of activities separated by << or >> delimiters. For example, you can now use the << delimiter to enter a sequence starting at the end:


which yields:

or you can use the >> delimiter to enter the sequence of actions starting with the next action and leading to the final action or project:

which yields:

MindReader processes each portion of the sequence separately based on keywords in each activity, so if you enter:

Report Complete isproject next month! << Review draft << Waiting for Bob to draft report << Ask Bob to write report tomorrow

you get:

You can use this functionality from the MindReader q or b tags or from OutLinker. I think it has a lot of potential uses that I haven't thought of yet. For example, you could conceive of having a library of "template" sequences that you queue in as needed for routine work flows.

You can download the new functionality by grabbing the ao_mindreader_common.mmbas macro from the macro library or running the setup program.

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1. New MindReader features: the "m" tag and explicit context
2. OutLinker: A new tool for draining your Microsoft Outlook inbox
3. GTD and MindReader Q&A

One thing I have found difficult is figuring out how what I have already "read" in the stream of twitters coming in. Some folks just post occassional nuggets that get lost in the stream. I'm sure the twitter clients allow you to mark things read, but its not obvious to me how.

So, just in time, Andrew Wilcox this evening twittered a link to an experiment he did with using the News Smart Map Part to import and organize twitters from his friends. This reminded me of the MindManager RSS News Reader posted back in March 2007.

The macro in that tool takes the RSS feed and logs it in a "database" as well as feeding it into an in-tray. That allows you to copy/paste/mark-done/delete the topics and not have them reappear when you refresh the feed. I mainly use the tool to process tasks coming in from Jott and to process blog comments via RSS to make sure I have closed out the action items associated with them.

To try this out, I first went to twitter.com to get therss feed for my account, which is .

I next used this to "Add new news feed to library" in the map part tab in MindManager. In order to do this using MindManager 8, I found I had to first manually add a "News Feeds" folder to the tab, otherwise the add-news-feed command didn't do anything.

Once the news map part is created, you drag it into the MindManager map:

Once you have create a map with the feeds you want processed, you next run the rss_to_intray.mmbas macro to processed the current feed content into a "rssdb" topic and an in-tray.

The macro is available in the MindManager macro library or you can automatically install it using along with other AO tools using the Setup program. If you use the setup program, the macro will be located in the My Maps\AO directory and can be run manually or with the rssi GyroQ tag.

Once you have the entries into MindManager, you can process them manually or using a tool like ResultsManager to feed them up to a dashboard (perhaps with a someday/maybe or list filter).

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