Thanks Mark. A good and timely comment.  I, for one am continually
mystified by the requests for rich text in comments - what for?
Preserving links, ok, I get it. But it it gets big and clunky and
starts auto-formatting my text like word does, I am not going to be a
fan.

I would like to see tabs with various views so I can zoom in on
everything related to a context or project and have an easier time
doing a weekly or project review. I would also like to see a more
robust printing system so I can collect actions during a meeting and
print out something akin to minutes without having to play around with
HTML templates

I would also like to see an emphasis on the mobile apps as collectors
of tasks and statuses and therfore I thing the sync improvements with
cloud sync and the mobile tools were a godsend, and now we need a
rapid task entry parser on the blackberry app, and automated syncing
on the portable apps so I can be sure my collected actions are on my
desktop without having to pull out my BB and sync by hand.

Lastly, I cannot resist commenting on the tablet debate. I will say
this - a touchscreen is a fabulous interface device, but what it
replaces is a mouse. It is infinitely more intuitive and simple to use
than a mouse. Hopefully, it gets rid of  the silly conventions of the
mouse driven world (what are the pictures on buttons for? Why not
words?  Who are all these illiterate people the OS makers think are
using computers?), but, well, the most commonly sold addon for an ipod
is a keyboard.  I wouldn't lose any sleep worrying about people with
paying, knowledge worker jobs flocking in droves to peck out their
tasks one finger at a time - and those are the paying mlo customers.

On Sep 22, 2:04 pm, Mark Levison <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Marek Jedliński <[email protected]
>
>
>
>
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> > wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 17:52, Mark Levison <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Finally when asking for Rich Text in something like notes please
> >> appreciate that this will require a change to the file format and affect
> >> **every** MLO platform. That's a lot of work it will take time.
>
> > Thanks, Mark, this is understood. I would suggest HTML as underlying
> > format, because it's probably supported on mobile platforms as well.
>
> > On the other hand, this goes back to the recent posts here about the
> > desktop vs mobile apps. It would be unfortunate if the limitations or
> > complexities of mobile platforms were to hold back the development of
> > desktop MLO.
>
> We can rehash the good and bad of mobile for the rest of time. Two yrs ago
> everyone in this forum was saying MLO will die if Andrey doesn't do: IPhone,
> Android, BlackBerry, ....
>
> Now the discussion has swung back the other way. Keep in mind that Andrey
> has a small team doing the work and they're human.
>
> Interesting point I challenged you and everyone else on this thread to tell
> us the *what* and the *why* of your needs and you skipped that. Telling
> Andrey html is right way to go is technical decision best left to Andrey, we
> should focus on how this will make our use of MLO better. So I ask again *what
> *is that you want (without technical details) i.e. I want to copy and paste
> an email without losing formatting or I want to copy and paste a web page.
> In addition we need a *why *what business problem will that solve?
>
> In my case I've never understood the case for rich text - so sell me (and
> maybe Andrey) on why it matters to you. Not just more +1 but tell what
> underlying business problem it will solve for you.
>
> Cheers
> Mark Levison
>
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