ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

Several people had asked for customizable context buttons in MindReader. In part because Stefan has teh biggest donation to date, I jumped right on the task. As of yesterday the ribbon has had an options button that lets you not only change the contexts but allows you to re-purpose the context, due, and time tabs […]

Wojciech posted a nice example of how one might use Map2Excel on his blog.

While MindManager macros can be very useful for automating repetitive operations in MindManager, it can be a little tedious to launch them. You either need to enable the developer tab and then click on “developer, macros, macro editor, run” or assign the macro to the topic context menu (which can get crowded and requires a […]

I wanted to provide an update on my project of converting tools on the activityowner.com site to MindManager Add-ins. The wiki.activityowner.com now has three independent stand-alone add-ins installs with domains that point to them: http://wiki.activityowner.com/index.php?title=MindReader, http://wiki.activityowner.com/index.php?title=Mark_Task_Complete http://map2excel.com, and of course http://wiki.activityowner.com/index.php?title=OutLinker. Each add-in is really stand-alone now and will be less intimidating for new users […]

Some users uncovered a bug in the 1st version of Map2Excel that only showed up if you hadn’t previously installed the ActivityOwner Tools Add-in for MindManager. It is fixed now, so if you had trouble installing, please have another go at it and report your results: http://map2excel.com

The Map2Excel tool has been converted to an easily installable MindManager add-in. More information is available here. The add-in also incorporates Map2Table and Map2Outline. To download the add-in, visit http://map2excel.com. Note that the ActivityOwner Tools Add-in is also fairly functional now and ready for testing and feedback. SAMPLE INPUT: SAMPLE OUTPUT:

There was a discussion over the past few days on the MindManagerDev yahoo group on the relatively limited documentation of the MindManager Object Model and the challenges for new developers to get past the learning curve for creating add-ins for MindManager. Nigel Goult of Olympic Limited has now generously shared a 7 step tutorial on […]

IN Part 5 of the series we enumerated some of the issues that emerged for ResultsManager users with the new ways that MindManager 9 handles task dates. One of the main issues (which I didn’t recognize at that time) was that the way duration is now handled in MindManager was causing ResultsManager to add due […]