Thank You for the Reply I now see why you use both interfaces. I also have spent a few years of trying to perfect GTD for my situation and I agree i don't know why MLO is not more well known. I have tried a few other software solutions over the years and none can compare to the flexibility of MLO. I can see where it is a two edged sword. The application and future development is worth a higher license fee, but the market will only bear so much before current and potential customers "make do" with other less flexible apps.
I have found that every time I try to really micromanage my life by organizing and modifying MLO I end up reverting to a simpler format. in fact I have been currently running my simplest format yet combining GTD principles and View / Horizon principles. I have a limited number of contexts (maybe a dozen or so) to run my day to day life and everything else is "parked" in a over the horizon context waiting for weekly review. Once I disciplined myself to use views sorted by context my life became much clearer. Otherwise I found I spent so much time trying to organize what I was going to do and not enough time actually doing. I cannot control the flow of incoming tasks and most days they grow faster than they get completed, but I leave every day with an empty inbox on my desk and an empty email inbox. What a nice feeling! Prior to my adoption of a smart phone, (I resisted for no other reason than i did not feel like giving Verizon an additional 30.00 a month) I carried a Pda which I plugged into my pc at my desk so it continuously synced. I finally went with a smart phone and know use cloud sync. The only step it added in my life was remembering to actually sync so i pray that someday that syncing will become automatic! I feel your pain that your IT policies are restrictive like that, My IT dept has similar overly restrictive policies in my opinion. The main number one forces me to use a rule in my outlook to forward all incoming email to my gmail account so it can sync with my phone. They will not allow their email to "talk" directly with a pop3 service like google. Now every email in my gmail starts off with FWD and they are all from "me" so i cannot even sort by sender without a crushing amount of filters. Yet if I bought an IPHONE they are ok with that. ugh! I guess if i was faced with your situation, many different computers in the same organization and at home as well I would just run my MLO from a flash drive with a bu copy on my home machine. Not the cleanest or most graceful solution but it works I guess. I would love ONE place or interface or whatever. I can envision where everything in my life could be done in one app I just don't think it would ever happen...and oh would i pay for that. All the capabilities of MLO and Outlook , and Google and the Microsoft office suite all co-mingling and updating and talking to one another at all times and being able to access all this from anywhere? and get it all on my phone when I need? Oh well I'd like to solve the national debt and employment and health care also............. On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:47 AM, lrando <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Daniel, > The web front end is the point, not another task organizer. > I just want a web front end and toodledo is a good one. > While my case is a special one, the web front end incorporating a > small set of features is something that everyone could benefit from > and it could be a good way to promote MLO. > in fact in my mind it would simplify life for the developers. Unless i > have a misconception, Implementing HTML5 they could have a platform > independent and consitent interface to MLO on mobile devices. > Two platforms instead of SIX (including the cloud sync). > > Its taken me two years of implementing GTD to stumble onto MLO. I > don't get why MLO isn't better known. Maybe because getting ANCHORED > to ONE PC is so limiting that its not something reviewers take > seriously, and we all know what a pain it is to have to install MLO on > another pc and set it up to sync and import your views from your other > pc's and then when you modify views you have to distribute them using > the sneakernet. > > I use multiple pc's during the day. My organizations firewall policies > don't allow the cloud sync feature to work, and the policies are non- > negotiable. > My work environment is too complex to mix with my personal > environment, I wind up with lists of contexts and projects that become > unmanageble and too time consuming to sort through. > > Having a toodledo sync would allow me to update my personal task > environment in toodledo and have it synced to MLO on my laptop at home > so I could take advantage of having the task show up in my home MLO > and then I could define it there in my morning review. > > > > > On Sep 14, 1:36 pm, daniel sekera <[email protected]> wrote: > > you want the task organizer MLO to sync with the task organizer Toodledo? > > Why do you need to separate task organizers? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:02 AM, lrando <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I agree, > > > the android app is nice but I dont' think its practical for entering > > > data in. > > > I'd like to some basic AUTOMATED syncing with toodledo at the desktop > > > or full blown, like the "dgt gtd" android app does which is what I am > > > evaluating now due to the syncing limitations in MLO. > > > > > On Sep 14, 7:50 am, Holmes245 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I agree as well. 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