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Comment on Excited about MindReader by ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:52:40 +0000

Note that the registry script in Harold’s first message needs to have all its quotes changed back to simple “. The various blog sofware programs involved converted some of them to “fancyquotes” along the way.

There is a downloadable .reg file on the AO wiki now for this.

Comment on Excited about MindReader by Mike Wilkerson

Mike Wilkerson — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:13:47 +0000

I’m updating my links to point people to the ActivityOwner enhanced code and usage instructions in the post above. It’s better

Comment on Excited about MindReader by ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:50:54 +0000

EnqueueActivitiesFromTasks_MindReader is now part of the “OutLinker” macro. If the macro senses its being run on tasks it runs it.

See
http://www.activityowner.com/2007/12/08/outlinker-a-new-tool-for-draining-your-microsoft-outlook-inbox/

for more info.

Comment on Excited about MindReader by Mike Wilkerson

Mike Wilkerson — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:51:30 +0000

Hi Mal, actually, that code for dealing with Outlook tasks is in the same Outlook.bas file that AO has linked above. The function you’re interested in is called:
EnqueueActivitiesFromTasks_MindReader

Basically, just want to select one or more tasks in Outlook and then invoke this macro.

Comment on Excited about MindReader by Mal Evans

Mal Evans — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:20:11 +0000

Hi Mike,

this is great. AO has done a lot a tweaks to mindreader for me as well and this combination just brings it all that much closer to being a complete and integrated solution.

One thing I am missing you have alluded to in that you have written a macro to grab tasks in a similar manner. Can you let me have a copy of that code? I use a Palm and like you having the ability to grab tasks there but easily get them into RM is the Holy Grail.

Comment on Excited about MindReader by ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:13:20 +0000

I’ve been enjoying the use of this macro quite a bit and continue to tweak it to save more time. The main new addition is that it now automatically extracts the sender’s name (or addressee’s name if used in the sent-items folder) and prompts you to assign, owe, or contact the person about this task. It also prompts you to put the subject into GyroQ where it can be edited if needed.

Given that “savelinkandmindread” is a bit of a mouthful, I renamed the main macro as “OutLinker”. The home page for the macro on the AO wiki is:

http://wiki.activityowner.com/index.php?title=OutLinker

Thanks Mike — this is extremely useful code.

Comment on Excited about MindReader by Mike Wilkerson

Mike Wilkerson — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:56:07 +0000

I’ve updated the link to the Outlook macros to where it now lives on ActivityOwner’s wiki. He made some great enhancements to make it easy to change the “saved” folder to an alternative, including a saved folder in a local .pst, which has a couple of great benefits. One of those is to move reference material off of the server, since it will eventually bloat and have to be moved off anyway. Another benefit is that by moving straight to the archive and THEN capturing the Outlook item link, that link remains valid essentially forever; whereas in my original version, the link was do an email item in the server based folder. So auto-archive ran and moved those items to the local .pst, the link would break. ActivityOwner’s modifications are a welcome improvement!

http://wiki.activityowner.com/index.php?title=SaveLinkandMindRead.bas

Comment on Mind Under Water: Confessions of a GTD Vet by Node Glue » Blog Archive » Intuitive Productivity

Node Glue » Blog Archive » Intuitive Productivity — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:17:13 +0000

[...] I’ve marveled before at those non-GTD people who just do what seems best at any given moment. Frankly, I’m suspicious that such a method is too susceptible to the tyranny of the urgent, and I think it truly is. But on the other hand, they enjoy a certain kind of freedom in “going with the gut.” So, again, there is the possibility of freedom (going with the gut), and the possibility of bondage (enslaved to the tyranny of the urgent). [...]

Comment on Excited about MindReader by Mike Wilkerson

Mike Wilkerson — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:09:21 +0000

Much thanks, Barry!

Comment on Excited about MindReader by Barry Friefield

Barry Friefield — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:40:21 +0000

Mike - these Macros really rock. Since I’m maybe not as computer literate as some people, I thought I would post a few clarifications for people in the Macro process of Outlook. I”m an Outlook 2003 user so I don’t know how this will work with other versions.

Anyhow, you want to follow Mike’s instructions to create the Macro, however when you do so it might get confusing because a lot of Macros show up on the Macro list and unless you’re a VBA expert, you may not understand the interelationship amongst them. So here’s the steps I took to create the Macros and then put it in the Menu with a hotkey; I hope this dummies it down a bit for those of us who need it:

CREATE THE MACRO:

1. go to Tools > Macro > Macros and type anything in the name box, it doesn’t matter.
2. the VBA editor will open up; delete any statements that show up in the editor so that its entirely empty.
3. Paste Mike’s entire Macro statements into the VBA editor and then save and close it.
4. now go back into the Tools > Macro > Macros and you will see a whole bunch of Macros. you can now test run the SaveLinkAndMindread Macro which may appear second from the bottom on the list. Test run it and you’ll see it works great.
5. Now you need to add the Macro to the Menu’s and give it a Hot Key. Mike uses Alt E, V to run his macro so to do this do the following:

SET-UP A HOT KEY FOR THE MACRO AND PUT IT IN THE MENU:

1. go to Tools > Customize
2. make sure you click on the Commands tab at the top of the box. Go to the Macro category and go near the bottom. You’ll see the SaveLinkAndMindread Macro near the bottom.
3. Click and drag the Macro over to the Edit menu and drop it anywhere you want in the edit menu. I put mine right at the top of the list above the Undo command.
4. Select the EDIT menu and right click on the Macro name you just dragged up there.
5. You can now set some basic properties for the Macro, mainly giving it the hotkey. Here’s how…when you right click on the item you’ll see a line for the Name. Add the “&” ampersand just before the “v” in Save so it looks like this “Project1.Sa&veLinkAndMindRead”
6. Click anywhere outside and the Menu and item close. Now click again on EDIT and you’ll see that the “v” is underlined. Click anywhere outside that menu and then click on the close button from the Customize window.

You should be all set and if you run the ALT E,V combo on a selected email, Voila it runs and you’re done.