Thanks for the information, Josh. In my testing I can't get sub projects to show up correctly in the Outlook GTD views.
On Jan 28, 2:14 pm, "Josh P." <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I can answer the part about the integration with Netcentrics GTD Add- > in. Andrey added several more user defined fields of data that get > synced to Outlook in order to fully support v3.x of the GTD Add-in. > You can view the list of synchronized fields by going to File\Outlook > Synchronization...\Advenced (button) and clicking on the User Defined > Fields tab. > > I'm finding this a very powerful solution which allows me to use MLO > as my primary GTD tool but automate the creation of tasks when > processing email within Outlook and sync these tasks back to MLO. In > addition projects & subprojects created in MLO are synced to Outlook > and viewable within the GTD Add-in "Project Central" window. > > There are some limitations which I have outlined below: > > 1) For all Projects and Subprojects in MLO you must have the “This is > a project” checkbox enabled on the MLO properties page. This can also > be achieved with Alt+J. > > 2) In Outlook Sync Options \ General (tab). I recommend disabling > (unchecking) the “Remove tasks from Outlook not visible in MLO To-Do > view:”. This is how I am testing for now. If you must use this (or > desire to) you must make sure that you are using a filter that > includes all project and subproject tasks or they will not show up and > be usable within the GTD Add-In. I find it much easier to sync > everything and then setup a custom view in outlook which categorizes > by Context, etc. (even though I have over 1000 items, sync time is > quite short and working well). > > 3) In Outlook Sync Options \ Outlook Categories (tab)\ Assign MLO > Projects to this Category only. Checkbox must be disabled (unchecked). > Otherwise Subprojects with have their category names changed when > synced to Outlook. > > 4) Another limitation to keep in mind is that the GTD Add-in cannot > handle multiple contexts for a single action. Therefore you must be > sure that every task in MLO only has a single context assigned to it. > > 5) Projects and subprojects created in the Add-in are not designated > as such when synched back to MLO. Therefore I recommend only using > manual syncing and immediately process these items in MLO once they > are synced back by checking the project box and moving them into their > correct parent/child relationship. > > Please let me know if I can answer any additional questions about this > integration. > > Josh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
