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When was the last time your inbox looked like this? The holy grail of Getting Things Done (GTD) is routinely emptying your various Inboxes to zero and processing the context into projects and next actions. Tools like GyroQ can help you capture ideas and process your paper in-trays, but if you are working in the […]

One of my long-time “Someday/Maybe” tasks has been to draft a blog post on the MindReader Configuration Map. I figured I’d push this off my aging task list with a quick post this evening and follow up as needed. Although MindReader is designed to work “out of the box”, the mindreader.mmap file provides a way […]

My ResultsManager Daily Action dashboard has gotten a bit bloated over the past year with a subset of tasks and projects that are lingering. In theory a good GTD Weekly Review would help address these, but I’ve been playing with some alternative strategies to break the log jam. I now use the GyroQ naaa tag […]

If you are using the “Mark and Log Task Done” macro (a.ka. “mtc” tag or mark-task-complete.mmbas), please download the updated version the macro from the wiki Macro Library. The previous version of the macro acted on the currently selected tasks and got confused if you changed the selected task while it was running. That problem […]

The latest version of MindReader will automatically add two new branches to your MindReader.mmap configuration file. The “delay” and “extend” branches add keyword phrases that will allow you to “delay” the start date and end date of a task or just “extend” the due date using the GyroQ “m” tag. For example, if you type […]

This week I got an inquiry from Sigurdur on whether there was a “Hot Action” ResultsManager dashboard available. I thought it would be useful to capture the process of creating one in a blog post to review the seven steps to creating a custom ResultsManager dashboard using MindManager 7. Sigurdur’s request was for a “Hot […]

In my ongoing quest to stake claims on as many single letter GyroQ tag names as possible, I’ve added the following three new tags to MindReader: “a” inserts a task “after” the selected task (inserts a parent task) “b” inserts a task “before” the selected task (adds a child task) “p” inserts a task in […]

Is the “Review dashboards for aging tasks” action item you added to your list after reading a recent post becoming an aging task itself? Even if you are capturing and completing dozens of tasks each week, a couple of them will invariably be “amorphous blobs” or have something about them that leads you to not […]