ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

While it can be character-building to hunt around the new MindManager 7 menu for things like My Maps, Map Markers, Task Info, Map Parts, and the Library, you can save yourself a lot of time if you go in and immediately reactivate the MindManager 6 sidebar tabs as shown below: This was mentioned in the […]

It’s not actually “ResultsManager 7” — the humble folks at Gyronix have only incremented their 3rd digit (2.7.7 to 2.7.8) — but for a free upgrade, their upcoming MindManager 7-compatible release provides a significantly improved interface and adds real day-to-day value. While experienced users may have some difficulty generally adapting to MindManager 7’s Microsoft Fluent […]

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! […]

On Saturday morning I confronted my ResultsManager Daily Actions Plus dashboards in MindManager facing several dozens items in my @web, @home, @errand, @workpc context lists. The problem was I had the flexibility to be in almost any of these contexts at that moment. The GTD approach in this situation is to fall back to (2) […]

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 […]

I recently started experimenting with wiki.activityowner.com as a means of more flexibly gathering and updating knowledge about MindManager, ResultsManager, GyroQ, and GTD, and to enable activityowner.com readers to participate in documenting tools like MindReader and Mark Tasks Complete. This feels like a bit of a retreat for a map evangelist, but while MindManager has wiki-like […]