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GyroQ allows you to attach notes and hyperlinks to the topics you are sending to your MindManager maps. The hyperlink command has an “auto” option that can magically extract a hyperlink from the a body of text automatically. These options can be handy if you are copying the content of an email associated with an […]

After a solid round of beta-testing and customer-driven improvements, Gyronix launched their GyroQ product today. Among other things, it has utility as a “GTD Capture” tool. Gyronix is following a novel “invitation-only” approach similar to what Google used in launching their Gmail service. Visit the “GyroQ Invitations” page for more information.

Individuals and teams adopting ResultsManager as a productivity tool can increase their chances of success if they are familiar with (if not adherents to) David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” (‘GTD”) methodology. The abridged audio version of David’s book is a good way to get started, particularly if you spend a lot of time in the […]

As a manager, having routine weekly/bi-weekly 1:1 meetings with each of your direct reports is essential for both project management and employee development. The effectiveness of these meetings is greatly improved if a defined agenda is available to guide the discussion and if the consequent decisions and agreements are captured and acted on reliably. In […]

Kyle McFarlin observes in his blog entry that prolific map generation can lead to organizational “opportunities”. As he and Walter Terry point out, ResultsManager Dashboards help out quite a bit in this regard; greatly reducing the frequency in which you need to dig around manually for individual maps. ResultsManager can even scan entire directories for […]

In order to use GyroQ and In-trays effectively, you may need to do some renovation on the structure and organization of your maps and projects. You may have a “Map Central” page with links to several “sub-map-centrals” for areas like home repair, finances, etc. These pages might be crowded with several projects and associated activities […]

If you start using ResultsManager in a group setting, you quickly realize that the default set of dashboards focus on you and your relationships with others. If a project or activity is not specifically owned or owed by you, it will not show up in your dashboards. While this filtering ultimately has many advantages, you […]

With ResultsManager and GyroQ, you have the option of accumulating your incoming items to in-trays in individual project maps, “area-of-focus” map-central pages, and/or the default “My in-tray” map. If you take the distributed approach, then it is harder to know if you have processed and emptied all your in-trays at the end of the day. […]