ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

Note: For an update on the approach described below, see Put it in front of the door in 2010. How do you start your day? (1) Reviewing your daily actions and/or doing a mini-review (2) “Doing email” and emergency scanning (3) Browsing the web to see if there are any new posts on activityowner.com Even […]

Does “last action” clutter make your “next action” maps less effective? In a post on the Yahoo GTD-MindManager group, Colin raises the question of how to best handle completed tasks in MindManager maps: Has anyone here struggled with the best way to track a history of completed tasks? When it comes to finite projects, it […]

A post last month described an approach for setting the agenda for a weekly 1:1 meeting using ResultsManager. The meeting agenda template, available in the Dashboard Library, attempts to operationalize the GTD review approach into a MindManager Map by walking the manager/direct-report through the process of discussing activities that have become overdue, are committed to […]

A key premise of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology is the need to create a basis to make the “decision in the moment”. David notes that even after deferring “someday/maybes”, and distilling their work down to next actions, the typical professional will have 50-150 next actions to deal with at any point in […]

Mindjet just announced an upcoming Webinar by Gyronix CTO Nick Duffill on Visualizing Outcomes: Managing Simultaneous Projects with MindManager and ResultsManager on Tuesday, November 28 at 10AM PST (GMT-8:00). MindJet has increasingly been promoting the use MindManager for Project Management. While MindManager alone does have great utility, using it for project management without ResultsManager can […]

Elizabeth recently posted on the Yahoo GTD_Mindmanager group on her use of MindManager to review the Incompletion Triggers list from David Allen’s book Getting Things Done. The trigger list provides prompts to jog your memory of open loops that are “on your mind” that you need into translate to projects and next actions. She inquired […]

The GyroQ tags forGyroTimer have been updated since the initial post. See the GyroQ Tag Library for updated code and packed text. This version adds project specific logs to complement the overall summary log. It also provides for both starting and ending comments for each entry. The export format is now comma-delimited for easier Excel […]

Here is a GyroQ application that might find its way into your top 20 uses of GyroQ. Do you need to track your time on projects or areas in order to maintain personal balance or for reporting purposes? Perhaps GyroQ can help… Lacking the discipline such a tool might provide, I spent a bit too […]