It sort of sounds like you use the lap/desktop for everything except adding and completing tasks? If so, you're sort of using it the way we described, with the mobile as mostly a list manager.
On Sep 19, 1:15 pm, Dwight <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe I'm just not typical (wouldn't be the first time :-) but MLO is > my most-used application and the Android is where I do my real work. > Something like 60% of my task captures and my task completions happen > away from my laptop. Since my phone is always with me, it's present > for 100% of my task captures and completions. I actually find > sometimes that when I am on the laptop working between browser and > word processor and I realize something I need to do, it's faster to > hit the [+] icon one my phone, enter a couple of words, and hit > [create] than to do it on the laptop. > > I want MLO on the phone to do all the task management that I need > while I am out living my life. This includes taking down to-dos while > I am at a restaurant having a meal with a client, checking off that I > have picked up a brochure at the printer, and checking which of my > pending calls-to-make I should do next. For me, the laptop is for > housekeeping and maintenance, such as archiving, sifting the dozens of > new tasks in my inbox into categories and folders, fleshing out a > project structure and setting complex dependencies. > > I understand and agree that there's more per-unit revenue in desktop > apps than phone apps (I think the jury is still out on tablet app > revenues.) but I think that mobile apps will be the driver that > creates demand for the desktop app. The whole conversation about the > limited role of phones and tablets is like a replay of the arguments I > had in the 1980s with people who said desktops would never be good for > anything but forms-based data entry, because mainframes have so much > more power. > > I am in favor of continuing development of the desktop app. For people > who take their hands off of the desktop keyboard from time to time, I > think task management demands a mobile app and it would be a mistake > to dismiss it as just a toy or a tracking tool. > -Dwight -- 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.
