ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

The ActivityOwner.Com site has accumulated almost 350 comments over the span of 10 months. I enjoy them quite a bit and find it manageable, but tools like MindReader and Mark Task Complete that span several blog posts have their conversations spread across the site, leaving readers stumped as to where to ask a question. The […]

If your ResultsManager activities typically have start date entered (e.g. if you use MindReader), then you might find an added feature of the “next-action-verb-analysis” macro useful. The new version of the macro calculates the average age of your next actions and enumerates those stragglers that are more than twice the average. This provides a way […]

A key strategy of GTD is breaking down your projects into a sequence of Physical Next Actions that you can sort into context lists to be done when appropriate. The ResultsManager Daily Action Dashboard provides you with these context lists. The new Next Action Verb Analysis macro scans the next actions branch of the dashboard […]

Eric Mack is wondering whether there is a need for GTD 2.0: “So, here I am, on the fourth of July, thinking about what GTD 2.0 might look like for me personally and whether I need a GTD 2.0 to deal with the world today or just need to get better at what I already […]

The activityowner.com libraries for GyroQ Tags, ResultsManager Dashboard Templates, and MindManager macros have been moved over to the wiki. The lists have been sorted out and cleaned up a bit, so if you haven’t looked at them in awhile, now might be a good time: ResultsManager Dashboard Template Library GyroQ Tag Library MindManager Macro Library […]

The current MindReader “o”, and “q” tags make use of a temporary MindManager map to transfer the text entered at the GyroQ prompt into the underlying SAX basic macros. This adds a second of processing time and a distracting flash of the temporary map. While waiting for the GyroQ version 7 upgrade, I worked out […]

This is almost too embarrassing to post. Working with MindReader this afternoon while doing my GTD weekly review, I noticed the script was running a bit sluggishly while processing items. I decided to go into the SAX basic code and see if I could speed it up a bit. I made several changes, including leaving […]

Based on reader feedback, one of the more popular GyroQ hacks on ActivityOwner.Com is the Put it in front of the Door script that enables you to setup your computer to automatically unload your GyroQ queue and refresh your ResultsManager dashboards each morning. The new ResultsManager Ribbon-interface that Gyronix created for MindManager 7 makes it […]