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My ResultsManager Daily Action dashboard has gotten a bit bloated over the past year with a subset of tasks and projects that are lingering. In theory a good GTD Weekly Review would help address these, but I’ve been playing with some alternative strategies to break the log jam. I now use the GyroQ naaa tag […]

The latest version of GyroQ (1.9.4.9) leads to a glitch with the older version of the MindReader “q” tag that causes MindReader to mark up the centraltopic of the destination map instead of the new topic. To address this, just paste the packed text of the new q tag into the GyroQ dialog box. This […]

If you are using the “Mark and Log Task Done” macro (a.ka. “mtc” tag or mark-task-complete.mmbas), please download the updated version the macro from the wiki Macro Library. The previous version of the macro acted on the currently selected tasks and got confused if you changed the selected task while it was running. That problem […]

The latest version of MindReader will automatically add two new branches to your MindReader.mmap configuration file. The “delay” and “extend” branches add keyword phrases that will allow you to “delay” the start date and end date of a task or just “extend” the due date using the GyroQ “m” tag. For example, if you type […]

This week I got an inquiry from Sigurdur on whether there was a “Hot Action” ResultsManager dashboard available. I thought it would be useful to capture the process of creating one in a blog post to review the seven steps to creating a custom ResultsManager dashboard using MindManager 7. Sigurdur’s request was for a “Hot […]

In my ongoing quest to stake claims on as many single letter GyroQ tag names as possible, I’ve added the following three new tags to MindReader: “a” inserts a task “after” the selected task (inserts a parent task) “b” inserts a task “before” the selected task (adds a child task) “p” inserts a task in […]

Is the “Review dashboards for aging tasks” action item you added to your list after reading a recent post becoming an aging task itself? Even if you are capturing and completing dozens of tasks each week, a couple of them will invariably be “amorphous blobs” or have something about them that leads you to not […]

One of the central themes of GTD is learning to recognize when a task on your to-do list is not really the “next action”. David Allen typically points out that “Get New tires” needs to be preceded by “make appointment for tire replacement” and that preceded by “find phone number for garage”. Mal sent along […]