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The latest version of OutLinker will let you select a set of upcoming Microsoft Outlook appointments and process them into MindManager so that ResultsManager can remind you to get prepared for them. The default next action is set to “Prepare for /meeting subject/” but can be modified. The deadline for the task is set on […]

I made a few big improvements to the OutLinker macro today. It now stores its configuration settings in a notes folder so it is easier to upgrade/configure without editing code. It will also prompt user for the archive store/folder if it doesn’t find them. For fun it counts the number of messages you have processed […]

Outlinker is evolving quickly as it gets some use and the suggestions trickle in. I used it to successfully drain my Gmail inbox to zero for the first time using Microsoft Outlook this morning and made several edits along the way. The macro now lets you select the messages you want to process and then […]

Getting In to Empty: Getting “IN” to empty doesn’t mean actually doing all the actions and projects you’v collected. It just means identifying each item and deciding what it is, what it means, and what you’re going to do with it”. (David Allen, Getting Things Done, Page 119). David Allen stresses that your should process […]

The top item in my blog map “in-tray” is a December 1st item: “Share Marc Orchant’s Getting Things Done Map on Blog”. I had come across Marc Orchant’s MindManager vingnette after reading about it on Pascal Venier’s Productive Workflows blog. I was struck by how his simple “Getting Things Done” map touched on many important […]

When was the last time your inbox looked like this? The holy grail of Getting Things Done (GTD) is routinely emptying your various Inboxes to zero and processing the context into projects and next actions. Tools like GyroQ can help you capture ideas and process your paper in-trays, but if you are working in the […]

One of my long-time “Someday/Maybe” tasks has been to draft a blog post on the MindReader Configuration Map. I figured I’d push this off my aging task list with a quick post this evening and follow up as needed. Although MindReader is designed to work “out of the box”, the mindreader.mmap file provides a way […]

My ResultsManager Daily Action dashboard has gotten a bit bloated over the past year with a subset of tasks and projects that are lingering. In theory a good GTD Weekly Review would help address these, but I’ve been playing with some alternative strategies to break the log jam. I now use the GyroQ naaa tag […]