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The typical approach to utilizing ResultsManager to harvest project and next action information from MindManager maps is to set up a central map that links out to each map of interest or to a set of “area” map centrals which links to project maps. While this approach does allow you to navigate down to particular […]

Stefan asked a question on the Yahoo GTD MindManager group: Hi all, I am using the In-tray dashboard from Gyronix’ ResultManager and AOs “In-Tray.mmbas” macro to create a map that shows a) the actions in the in trays and b) the links to the In-Trays. This way it is easy to have direct access to […]

I got a request to add a feature to OutLinker to archive OutLook messages to disk rather than to a pst file. Rather than add that complexity to OutLinker, I found it easier and potentially more generally useful to create a macro that moves the 1st attachment present in selected MindManager topics to disk and […]

Elizabeth Gilbert recently gave a talk at TED on “A Different Way to Think about Creative Genius“. The subject of her talk is the stress and fear creative people experience in trying to meet the high expectations they set for themselves. While she jokes about these issues not impacting people in “non-creative” fields like engineering, […]

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 […]

I couldn’t resist this edit to the daily Dilbert:

Thanks to all who responded to the GyroQ Tag Usage Survey. We had 29 respondents and the results were very useful. The results are included below as screen shots. The m tag was the clear winner with more than 60% using it often or all the time, followed by the c and q tags. The […]