Archive for the 'MindReader' Category

A Configurable GyroQ Tag for Parsing Action Items

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Last week’s post on “GyroParser-let GyroQ read your mind” demonstrated an initial proof of concept of a GyroQ tag for parsing the text of an action item to try to infer the destination map for it, its due date, its context, and the relationships (e.g. waiting for, owed to, contact about) associated with it. With […]

GyroQ: Open maps, documents, web pages, and applications using keywords

Friday, January 26th, 2007

In my quest to create a generic “GyroParse” (now called “MindReader”), the first order of business was to create a generic and configurable way to open the destination MindManager map using GyroQ based on keywords in the queued item. After a few iterations, I converged on the following approach, which can be implemented for use […]

MindReader — let GyroQ read your mind

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

“Buy eggs tomorrow!” “Call Bob next week”, “Read Getting Things Done someday” Longtime ActivityOwner.com readers may remember an early post that speculated about the possibility of having GyroQ parse the text of an action item to automatically infer things like context. due date, priority, etc. This could act as a time saver, allow one tag […]

Using GyroActivator to automatically mark up your GyroQ activities

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

In its default mode, GyroQ lets you quickly unload plain vanilla action items “out of your head” and into a main “My In-Tray” map for later processing. While this is a great utility, it can lead you to accumulate a long list of generic and unrelated action items. With each addition to the queue, your […]

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