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 […]

Per Ron’s suggestion, the latest version of MindReader incorporates the ability to substitute a string of text for an “Alias”. For example, if you frequently add someday maybe projects to your home repair map, you can define a “sdhr” alias which substitutes [isproject home repair someday] into your task so that it is marked up […]

One of MindReader‘s handy features is that it allows you to send tasks to specific maps based on a keyword. This allows you to avoid having to deal with a huge “Daily Capture Map” backlog when you want to sort out things related to specific project or area of responsibility. Previously you needed to add […]

MindReader has always had the option of capturing a link or note along with a task. It did this by always taking a copy of the clipboard at the time of use and then adding it to the task as a note or link if the “note” or “link” keyword was in the string. 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 […]

I’ve used OutLinker to process a couple thousand email messages, and generally it is working well, but I recently noticed a couple capture maps that it had sent tasks to would crash MindManager if I brought certain topics into view. I discovered today that the problem is that these tasks happen to have the string […]

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 […]