ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

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 […]

It’s not actually “ResultsManager 7” — the humble folks at Gyronix have only incremented their 3rd digit (2.7.7 to 2.7.8) — but for a free upgrade, their upcoming MindManager 7-compatible release provides a significantly improved interface and adds real day-to-day value. While experienced users may have some difficulty generally adapting to MindManager 7’s Microsoft Fluent […]

The MindManager Viewer Browser Plug-in provides a convenient way to share MindManager maps to a broad audience without requiring them to own MindManager or to install the desktop viewer application. It can be particularly hand on an intranet as means to avoid read-only users from locking out people needing to edit maps. The problem is […]

The default ResultsManager “Daily Actions” dashboard includes a branch that enumerates activities with hard deadlines in the next 7 days, but doesn’t include a corresponding branch for activities that have soft target date — you only see the overdue soft target activities in the review dashboard. If you take the approach of using target dates […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]