ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

In a message on the GTD-MindManager Yahoo group, Juan asked about ways of getting tasks into MindManager from his new PDA. I thought it might be useful to cross-post a reply here for posterity: Here are four options for getting items into your maps from a mobile device. Use bitbucket.org to mail yourself task from […]

MindManager provides a great environment for group brainstorming on issues and ideas and for organizing information. While you may start out in an unstructured way, you will often find your final product has a 3-level deep structure such as in the Pro/Con analysis shown below. In these cases it can be handy to convert this […]

Although the first prototype emerged earlier, the first production version of MindReader made its debut 1 year ago last Sunday. I’d like to thanks to all who have helped take it from its early 14-word vocabulary to the large collection of keywords it recognizes today. Recently we’ve been debating how to best read your mind […]

One handy feature of MindReader is its ability to set the current contents of the clipboard as a task’s hyperlink or note if you include a keyword (isnote, see note, islink, see link). As currently configured it always grabs the contents of the clipboard and puts it in the queue file because it can’t know […]

If you are using OutLinker you may have achieved Inbox Zero for the first time in awhile. Don’t stop there. While your inbox contains a mixture of spam, bulk mail, info-only cc’s, and perhaps 10% actionable information, your “Sent Items” will tend to have a much more concentrated set of … commitments you have made […]

The Next Action Analysis tool’s report has evolved quite a bit over the last two weeks (see picture below) since the initial post (5 metrics for assessing your GTD System). Here is a summary of the changes: Added more targeted recommendations for the specific metrics with the most room for improvement along with wiki links […]

[Editor’s Note: Jose Miguel is a the MindReader power user and has driven the development of many of its features. In this guest post, he describes how he came to use the tool and how he uses it day to day. A Spanish version of his post is also available. ] Until I learned about […]

[Nota del editor: José Miguel es el poder MindReader usuario y ha impulsado el desarrollo de muchas de sus características. En este puesto de invitado, él describe cómo llegó a utilizar la herramienta y la forma en que lo usa día a día. Una versión en Inglés está también disponible] Hasta que descubrí