ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

While I haven’t been at 10.0 level for awhile, I’ve been happily Getting Things Done (GTD) using MindManager, ResultsManager, GyroQ along with the Outlinker, MindReader, Next Action Analysis, and Mark Task Complete macros. In general I’ve found running the NAA script on the daily action dashboard points me at the right widgets to be crank […]

Things have gotten a bit quiet in “gyrospace” lately. Perhaps this is because folks have given up on their new year’s resolutions or moved on to other tools. I’m hoping it is because we are all successfully focusing on Getting Things Done rather than tinkering with our systems and surfing blogs. After three years of […]

The Next Action Analysis macro has been updated to log your scores into comma delimited notes on a mindmanager log map each time you run it on your ResultsManager daily action dashboard. The central topic note contains the date/time stamp, the overall score, and each dimension’s score. The branches contain tables with the actual values […]

Chuck Brown posted some questions on GTD and MindReader as a comment on AO-Pack blog entry. I thought answering via a post would make sense as it provides some elbow room and an opportunity for others to chime in. … I understand that GTD is not a set of absolute rules, but tools to use […]

Back on New Year’s day I proposed Five Metrics for assessing the state of your GTD system. The idea was to assess the Freshness, Focus, Feasibility, Foresight, and Finishing (5F’s) of your current next actions and combine these into an overall score. The Next Action Analysis macro calculates and sorts these metrics for ResultsManager users […]

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 […]

The Next Action Analysis tool’s report has evolved quite a bit over the last two weeks (see picture below) since the initial post (5 metrics for assessing your GTD System). Here is a summary of the changes: Added more targeted recommendations for the specific metrics with the most room for improvement along with wiki links […]

[Editor’s Note: Jose Miguel is a the MindReader power user and has driven the development of many of its features. In this guest post, he describes how he came to use the tool and how he uses it day to day. A Spanish version of his post is also available. ] Until I learned about […]