ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

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 […]

See the activityowner wiki for some quick screen shots of steps needed to get OutLinker working with OutLook 2010. If you get stuck post a comment below and I’ll help you out as soon as possible. If you have gotten this working, feel free to contribute by editing the wiki to add some further narrative […]

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’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 […]

A reader writes by email… Dear AO, I use your “Put it in Front of the Door” script daily and I find it very useful. I would like to add a feature to the script, which is synchronizing the dashboard with my tasks in Microsoft Outlook using the “Export task info to Outlook” feature of […]

When you are faced with 100 messages in Microsoft OutLook, it will often be due to the presence of several conversations spread across the Inbox with various entries containing different replies and different attachments. Your first step in processing may be to thin the the list down to only the most recent messages in each […]

I thought it was done, but one last someday/maybe feature creeped into OutLinker last evening. OutLinker now has buttons to allow you to set the context for the task associated with the message quickly. Note that the contexts assigned with the buttons (or by just putting the @context in the next action) are now automatically […]

OutLinker came into being as a means for creating MindManager hyperlinks to archived Microsoft Outlook messages. It faccilitates the Getting Things Done (GTD) process of empyting your inbox and can be optionally enhanced by GyroQ and MindReader. The program was recently enhanced with the option to create Outlook tasks with message attachments and/or links. It […]