ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

Mike P. inquired off-line about the possibility of importing data from nactionr into MindManager for use with ResultsManager and provided a sample nactionr xml file. nactionr is a pocketPC-based GTD tool. I don’t have experience parsing xml, and wasn’t going to even attempt it, but then remembered that MindManager can open XML files and render […]

Up until now MindReader has processed individual tasks entered at the GyroQ prompt. Mal mentioned on the GTD-mindmanager yahoo group that it would be useful to have a drag and drop capability to pull in tasks he was accumulating in his Palm PDA. In order to address this need, the MindReader “q” command has been […]

Throughout the development of MindReader, the key challenge has been to find ways to make it easier for readers to install, configure, and use it. I have been pleasantly surprised by how taking the “configurable” approach has made the program more powerful and easier to use personally, particularly for use on multiple machines in multiple […]

If your ResultsManager activities typically have start date entered (e.g. if you use MindReader), then you might find an added feature of the “next-action-verb-analysis” macro useful. The new version of the macro calculates the average age of your next actions and enumerates those stragglers that are more than twice the average. This provides a way […]

A key strategy of GTD is breaking down your projects into a sequence of Physical Next Actions that you can sort into context lists to be done when appropriate. The ResultsManager Daily Action Dashboard provides you with these context lists. The new Next Action Verb Analysis macro scans the next actions branch of the dashboard […]

Eric Mack is wondering whether there is a need for GTD 2.0: “So, here I am, on the fourth of July, thinking about what GTD 2.0 might look like for me personally and whether I need a GTD 2.0 to deal with the world today or just need to get better at what I already […]

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 […]

Based on reader feedback, one of the more popular GyroQ hacks on ActivityOwner.Com is the Put it in front of the Door script that enables you to setup your computer to automatically unload your GyroQ queue and refresh your ResultsManager dashboards each morning. The new ResultsManager Ribbon-interface that Gyronix created for MindManager 7 makes it […]