ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

A few months back when I polled readers on “What is the next action for activityowner.com“, the two leading responses were “Tutorials on writing macros” and “examples of how I use the tools”. I figured coping with the current MindManager Task Date issue provides a good case study to start to address the later. In […]

As regular readers know, my Saturday morning hobby for the past few years has been to develop and share new ways of using MindManager for implementing David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. The past several months I have been more focused on quietly using the tools rather than procratinating by tweaking them, but the […]

Xiahung commented on the blog this week that MindManager 9 was adding task durations as “end date-start date” and causing unexpected date-related behavior in his ResultsManager dashboards. I hadn’t noticed issues in the pre-release version I’d done some cursory testing on, but Nick Duffill has now determined that changes were made in the final release […]

Reviewing my ResultsManager review dashboard this morning I found just a couple of projects related to my “blog” area and a long list of someday/maybes. I thought it might be useful to solicit reader guidance on where it would be most valuable for you to focus. Basically I’m wondering whether to focus on discussing, enhancing, […]

Often times the first step in processing an email request is to define a dedicated project map to attack it. The latest version of OutLinker has a new send to “New Project” map option. This will create a new MindManager project map, attach the message, message text, and/or link, mark it up based on your […]

I noticed this morning that MindReader didn’t have a default keyword for setting the due date of a tast to be “next quarter”. I thought it would be useful to put up a quick post on how to do this. 1. Open ao\mindreaderconfig.mmap (or just type “o mapmap”). 2. Navigate to the “dates” main topic. […]

I’m working on improving my Next Action Analysis (NAA) score this week and am faced with a “Project Needing Next Action” penalty for my “Create Macro to Sync up Dashboard to OutLook Task List” project. This was a reader requested script I finished up a few days ago. It looks like the next action it […]

Two of the biggest barriers to making good use of ResultsManager for Getting things Done (GTD) tend to be (1) the need to manually refresh dashboards and (2) the need to access to do list items away from your computer. When you sit down to get too work, the last thing you want to do […]