Re: [MLO] Android app needs desperate catchup

[Marvin Hamm]

Yes, I use the Due next 7 days view, it seems the fastest and since I work primarily with due dates, it is the most informative.  Just a bummer that it takes so many touches to get there from a cold start:  open MLO/More Views/Due 7 days/swipe to current day and maybe open branch. It is not that I need to star on a particular platform, but rather that I'm planning on the PC and acting with the Android.  I got introduced to GTD just as I was moving out of Palm.  So I've been quite interested in moving to a bit more of a context idea.  MLO allows it.  BUT, my PC only exists in 'two' contexts, work and home.  It is my Android that exists in many contexts.  It on the Android that the whole filtering by context need makes the most sense. I'm trying to get to a system where I can filter things off my todo list by virtue of time and location.  If I mark something as happening tonight at home, I don't want to see it again till tonight at home.  I don't want to have moved it on the PC so that it will show up only in another view, then go back to the droid and have to do the mental 'filtering' of the item because it is still on the 'today' view or stared list. I just set up PC MLO to sync in the background with Windows 7 task manager.  Works well so far as I can tell.  This is just the morning after. <grin>  One issue I had, was Task manager service wasn't started on my machine for some reason, so I had to manually start it.  Control Panel/Adminstrative Tools/Services...  This was my executable command, your paths will differ: "C:\_PA2\MLO\mlo.exe" "C:\_Data\MLOData\MH.ml" -quicksync -console   The trick is to open a command window on top of an MLO screen, so you can still see the MLO status bar.   Then tweak your command line until you can see MLO say that it is running a sync.  Once you have that working manually on a command line, you know your command is good, then you can plug that command into a Windows Task Manager Task. On 5/30/2012 8:20 AM, Lisa Stroyan wrote: Do you know about the Active Starred view and the other various views in the pulldown menu from another view? I don't understand why you would need to add the star on a particular platform, if that is what you are saying, or right before you do the task?  Here's my use model: - I use goals to roughly define my work horizons, "approximately in the next week", etc, usually using Active Actions on whatever machine I'm using. I have them set up to sort exactly the same way. I review this ideally, weekly. Active actions sorts Starred first, then Goal, then title (my recurring tasks have () in the beginning of the title because I kept deleting them by mistake :) - I use start dates to move tasks into the future so they don't show up when I don't want them to - Each morning I look through Active actions to tweak my Goal assignments then Star any new tasks I choose for the day (many are still Starred as they are recurring or haven't gotten done - I use Starred to mean "what I would like to accomplish today", with a divider task (text "------------------------------") that divides "must do" and "would like to do" .  - I go to Active Starred and use "Move" to order my daily list - I have MLO Android set to automatically sync its changes on exit/background - I do sync the PC manually first thing when I arrive and leave but have plans to set it up in the Windows Scheduler as has been discussed before On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:08 PM, M H <marv...@gmail.com> wrote: I guess what I balk at, is that it requires me to pre-star the events based on what I'm going to use next on the PC, manualy sync the PC, manually sync my droid (I have two, 7" Galaxy Tab and 4" Galaxy Captivate) and then once they are done, un-star them.  It seems a bit counterproductive to be touching these events just before I do them, when I'm trying hard to get to a system where I set each event  only once, hoping that I've given enough information that it will show up at the right time/place in the future.  I don't want to review my list when a filter of some sort should be giving me only the info that I need at the moment.   -- Lisa Lisa Stroyan, mailto: lstro...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.