ActivityOwner.Com – Getting Things Done with MindManager

The blog has been relatively quiet for past several months so I’m not sure how many regular readers and tool users are swinging by the site or following by email, RSS, or twitter, but here is a question: How much interest do you have in an add-in that adds an “ActivityOwner Tools” menu to the […]

When we left off in Part 4, we were getting started on the initial next actions of a “funnel timeline” project plan for addressing task date issues in MindManager 9: The goal of this series of posts is to both work through the MindManager 9 task date issue and to attempt to provide a working […]

As regular readers know, my Saturday morning hobby for the past few years has been to develop and share new ways of using MindManager for implementing David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. The past several months I have been more focused on quietly using the tools rather than procratinating by tweaking them, but the […]

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 noticed this morning that MindReader didn’t have a default keyword for setting the due date of a tast to be “next quarter”. I thought it would be useful to put up a quick post on how to do this. 1. Open ao\mindreaderconfig.mmap (or just type “o mapmap”). 2. Navigate to the “dates” main topic. […]

A MindReader power user suggested by email… Is it possible to add an extension to the nm tag to prompt to automatically run the k tag i.e. do you want to create a new link to a destination map – y/n? I use nm quite a lot but often forget to go and create a […]

…or begin with the beginning (next action) in mind. It’s your choice. Whether you are following Habit 2 of the Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People or the “Next Action” mindset of Getting things done (GTD), is all about learning to identify and break down the sequence of individual steps to get from […]

Andrew Wilcox recently posted a entry on his blog asking readers What is the missing link for MindManager? The killer add in you really want!. Johan posted a request for a project template with variable dates using a training engagement as an example: A : close the list with participant :x – 12 B : […]