The Productivity Show #018
The Productivity Show #018 (MP3 - 15.5MB - 43min)
It’s clean up time for Des and Cam this week, so we talk about what we’re doing to try to get rid of the rubbish and get on track for a good start to 2006!
Tools we talk about in the show include:
MindManager 6.0
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft OneNote
Writely
Getting Things Done
Bacardi Rum
Chuck Frey’s Mind Mapping Resource Center and his e-book on how to get the most out of mind mapping software
Jason Fried from 37 Signals podcast
The new and improved Tablet PC show on TPN
We’d both like to thank everyone for listening to the show this year and we look forward to helping you make 2006 your most productive year yet.
January 4th, 2006 at 1:40 am
Hey guys, Been listening to the new #18 show, you just inspired me to do a full purge to start 06 on the fresh..
ws
January 4th, 2006 at 3:18 am
Guys,
In show 18 you mentioned something about an app that linked MS Project to MindManager, but couldn’t remember the name at the time - can you recall what product that was?
thanks,
Martin
January 4th, 2006 at 8:18 am
Hi Martin. Thanks for the reminder! The product is GVCGantt, and is available from http://www.iaresearch.com/store/Products/JCVGantt2.0/JCVGantt2.htm
Hope this helps.
January 6th, 2006 at 7:46 am
Look forward to more discussion on Mind Manager as I too am a novice user and am finding it very beneficial. It’s a great way of visualising all the interactions between various ideas going on. I hadn’t really been using the links as I find it hard to get to the right section of other applications. It would be great for the people at Mindmanager to post a list of ‘how to link’ to sections of other applications as I am sure they are frequently asked.
January 6th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
Wade - that’s great news! Perhaps you would come on the show to tell us about your process and experience?
Angus - thanks, I’m going to get some MM gurus like Chuck and Robin Capper onto the show for a chat. I’ll chat to Hobie at Mindjet about making some MindJet people available for us as well.
January 7th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
Hi Cam,
Link to a page in OneNote - not possible, but looks as if it is coming in OneNote12 -
See
So when I’m sketching out a demo, I’m often basing it on other information in OneNote, and aching for some way to just stick in a link to that other note. In OneNote 2003, the best you could do - if you were quite clever - was to insert a file:// link to another section. Couldn’t get you to the exact page, was difficult to construct, broke if the other thing moved, etc.
In OneNote 12, when you right-click on a page tab, there’s a new menu command called “Copy Hyperlink to this Page”:
When you select this, OneNote builds a onenote:// hyperlink to the current page and puts it on the clipboard. Then you just navigate to the page where you want to insert the link, paste, and voila - OneNote inserts a nicely formatted friendly link (for example: Linking related notes together).
There are a bunch of technical reasons why it needs to be a onenote:// link, instead of the more common http:// or file:// links - most of which aren’t relevant to this discussion. The one that matters here is that this allows the link to point at a specific page, not just a specific section. (There are actually ways to do this with http:// links, but we couldn’t go that route for other reasons.) When you click on this link, it instantly jumps you to that page in your notes, scrolled to wherever you were the last time you looked at that page.
Pasted from
January 8th, 2006 at 12:54 am
Good work Colin. Where did you past it from? It’s the one flaw in OneNote that drives me crazy and makes it less than the perfect note-taking tool. Sounds like OneNote12 will do the trick. But I’m not sure I will want to pay $100 for the upgrade just to get hyperlinking!
January 8th, 2006 at 7:10 am
Sorry for some reason the paste did not print:
http://blogs.msdn.com/owen_braun/