On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: > I've started trying out the desktop version of MLO and it looks like > there are a lot of different ways to handle completed items.
I've never used, seen, or been bothered by Auto Archive. Yet I see people on the forum talking about using it quite frequently so I'm sure there are people that appreciate it. Rob, you seem like a nice, and very intelligent, guy, and so your message has me confused, so at the risk of pissing you off, I'm going to push back a little. Hopefully I've developed enough credibility with you that you will humor me. I see myself as kind and intelligent, too :) I KNOW that the developer is both because of my interactions with him. And this list has some amazing people on it; overall (and I have a lot of experience with email groups) quite a sharp group and willing to help out others. Why do you assume that something you don't want is bloat but lack of something you want is a major design flaw? I might never use a review feature, I might think it's way overkill for what I want to do. Perhaps I could be perfectly happy with making my own "REVIEW" context and setting it / unsetting it on tasks as I review them. But I support you wanting that feature, for your process...If I came in and called that feature names, I would be told, "just don't use it". Perhaps at some point in the past, someone really needed an auto-archive feature and asked for it, and the developers responded, and gave them that option. I'm not saying you should use Auto-archive, or even that it's a key feature of MLO. But perhaps you might want to ask people what they use it for and why it's designed that way, before you suggest that it's horrible? Look at the following paragraph, can you not see how insulting that is to all of us here and to the developers?? It blows your mind that you need to ask basic questions like this? Really? it's so bloated with options I'm having a > hard time figuring out whether I should even trust it to do the right > thing. It seems like there should just be a button to "clean up > completed items" instead. I appreciate the capabilities of MLO, but > frankly, it blows my mind that I have to ask basic questions like this > in the first place. I would highly recommend that the developers come > up with a single straightforward "correct" solution and banish > AutoArchive and all its complexity to the dark realm from whence it > came. I'm sorry that you somehow got such a bad view of MLO and somehow think everyone on this list is blind to it's faults. But everyone is entitled to an opinion, and everyone here is also entitled to respect. I honestly do respect you and believe your newcomers perspective adds a lot to the discussion...I hope you can reciprocate long enough to decide if MLO is the right product for your needs. I'll let someone else take the time to answer your other questions. Thanks for listening. Lisa Stroyan www.empathic-parenting.com -- 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.
