ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

One of the central themes of GTD is learning to recognize when a task on your to-do list is not really the “next action”. David Allen typically points out that “Get New tires” needs to be preceded by “make appointment for tire replacement” and that preceded by “find phone number for garage”. Mal sent along […]

Jose Miguel has made several great off-line syntax and code suggestions for MindReader that have led to several changes over the past few weeks. The morning’s new version of mindreaderNLP.mmbas has several new features: You can now specify any @context, ^area, resource@, or ~category using the syntax in this sentence. MindReader can usually set these […]

Although the site’s first post was back in August 2006 (Chapter 1), the first visitors started trickling this a year ago this week to read Committed Projects and Next Actions and Top 20 uses of GyroQ”. Since then the site has accumulated just under 25,000 visits and 100,000 page views. That’s not a lot by […]

Basecamp is a popular web-based collaboration tool from 37 Signals that enables project teams to create to do lists, set milestones, and share files over the internet. Basecamp doesn’t have the flexibility, power, or GTD-focused design that ResultsManager provides, but it does appear a bit more easy to use for web-based collaboration. —> While evaluating […]

Mike P. inquired off-line about the possibility of importing data from nactionr into MindManager for use with ResultsManager and provided a sample nactionr xml file. nactionr is a pocketPC-based GTD tool. I don’t have experience parsing xml, and wasn’t going to even attempt it, but then remembered that MindManager can open XML files and render […]

Up until now MindReader has processed individual tasks entered at the GyroQ prompt. Mal mentioned on the GTD-mindmanager yahoo group that it would be useful to have a drag and drop capability to pull in tasks he was accumulating in his Palm PDA. In order to address this need, the MindReader “q” command has been […]

Throughout the development of MindReader, the key challenge has been to find ways to make it easier for readers to install, configure, and use it. I have been pleasantly surprised by how taking the “configurable” approach has made the program more powerful and easier to use personally, particularly for use on multiple machines in multiple […]

Bill S. pointed out on the new ActivityOwner forum that one downside of having site content spread out across the blog, wiki and forum is that readers may forget where they saw something and need to search all three individually. Looking into this problem I discovered that Google launched a custom search feature last fall […]