Rob, as you know, MLO is a complex tool with a lot of power and the ability to support a wide variety of usage patterns. It can support simple usage and complex usage. If you want to use a complex tool like this in a simple way, a part of the cost is that you have to give up obsessing about the possibility that some complex alternative might have been better.
It sounds to me a though you are suffering some sort of post-traumatic stress as a result of having had a hard time with outlook's auto- archive. Many of your suggestions seem to me to be nothing more than trying to stamp out the words "auto-archive." I think this would be a shame, as they are widely used words that are understood by many people. Changing to a somewhat fuzzier phrase about cleaning up completed tasks does not sound helpful to me. A second point you seem to be making is that there could be better beginner-level documentation. ok, I will agree with you on that one. I don't think that your option 2 works. You mention confusion any time you need to unhide completed, but it's not just that. As the database grows to hold all the completed tasks it will get heavy and eventually slow your system down. My auto-archive usage is that daily, I move all completed tasks to an archive file. Sometimes I need to research something from the archive so it's nice to have it. This works fine for me and I have no problems and nothing is mystifying. The only issue is that I have to mark recurring tasks that have subtasks a do-not-archive, as you mentioned. I would like to see a default setting for this. -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.
