ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

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 […]

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, are committed to […]

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 inquired […]

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 for easier Excel […]

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 bit too […]

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 with an […]

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 information.

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 of the day. […]