ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

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 realized several activities had […]

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 everything works! […]

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 […]

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, but given that the […]

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 “My […]

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 on […]

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. The existing “o” […]

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 […]