ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]