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If you are using OutLinker you may have achieved Inbox Zero for the first time in awhile. Don’t stop there. While your inbox contains a mixture of spam, bulk mail, info-only cc’s, and perhaps 10% actionable information, your “Sent Items” will tend to have a much more concentrated set of … commitments you have made […]

MindReader turns one year old Sunday. The initial version (“Let GyroQ read your mind”) only recognized 13 keywords. Its vocabulary has grown quite a bit over time. As MindReader grows up, there are a few keywords that need to be revised or added. Projects and Sub-Projects Earlier versions were configured to recognize “project” and “subproject” […]

OutLinker is a Microsoft Outlook Macro for rapidly processing as set of Microsoft Outlook Tasks, Appointments, and Messages and transferring the content/links for the items you choose into MindManager for organization and tracking. The initial version required MindReader and GyroQ, which narrowed the potential user base quite to a small niche of power users. The […]

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 noticed I began experiencing frequent “The application has been requested to terminate”-type crashes since upgrading to the SP1 release for MindManager 7 where as the original release was pretty stable. I was a bit worried this was due to MindReader or OutLinker, but realized this evening it is likely due to my options being […]

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 […]