![]() ![]() It’s nice to have emails nicely separated out into appropriate folders but still have the original email as reference once the task is completed. OmniFocus is capable of linking back to emails as you create tasks from them. I left this till last but this is just as important. Freemind can be the landscape or 10,000 ft view of your sprint When the reference info is in an email Here the “Upgrade Server” project has triggered a few thoughts on strategy that I might want to reflect on at some point. It’s the landscape of my overall sprints, my overall view to refer to when I want reminding of the big picture.Īs new thoughts and ideas identity themselves (perhaps just by sorting through tasks in OmniFocus) – they might warrant making it onto the mindmap. The example below, the “Working Folder” link points to my local file system: Freemind can link out to supporting docs on your file systemĪs well as linking to web pages such as AWS EC2 docs, and Tomcat Docs.įreemind is providing a bit more for me here too. Freemind is capable of linking to files and folders. Here we’ll just focus on how we can use it to keep on top of the next 2 weeks.ĭuring a sprint, your reference/working info will come from various medium such emails, web pages and local files, as well as your own thoughts. There are plenty of uses for mind-mapping, when you’re new to a sprint, it can be helpful to understand what the team objectives are, or to learn the domain you’re working in. In a recent seminar I attended featuring speakers from Evernote, it was estimated that time to retrieve/search for information loses us around 2.5 hours a day! I was shocked at this stat, and pleased that I had already worked out to alleviate some of this by having consistent places to store my information. The key thing is to have a place to go that you can access what you need. Information that is not actionable, but merely supported needs to get stored off for later use. Not all input are actions, but the world isn’t kind enough to neatly categorise things for us in advance.
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