ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

The most popular post on the ActivityOwner.com site is an early review of the pre-release version of GyroQ. The “Top Twenty Uses for GyroQ?” blog entry speculates on how users might ultimately choose to populate the 20 tag slots the software provides. Since that time, the Activityowner.com tag library has accumulated over 30 tags and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

ResultsManager comes with a pre-defined set of dashboard templates that are very useful, particularly for implementing David Allen’s GTD approaches to managing projects and tasks. Technical users will often decide fairly quickly that they would like some additional dashboards that are tailored to their needs or provide a more group-oriented view. The 217 page manual […]

Although ResultsManager can be used without it, the discipline to use it correctly and stick to it comes most easily if you are familiar with and motivated to use the concepts introduced in the “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. Chapter 1 of the book is available on the Business Week website. This New York […]