Sometimes I have a task involving an email to be sent at a future time.for 
example, appealing an insurance claim but I have to wait for the detailed 
denial first. Or pestering my elected representative but not wanting to hit her 
with all my issues in the same day. In these cases, if I have time, I will 
compose a draft of the message in the task notes section, so it will be there 
when the task comes due.

If I'm drafting a message to send now, I would not use MLO to do it. I use k9 
on the phone and outlook on the laptop so I don't have the synching of drafts 
that Lisa has. Of i'm confident of completing the draft in one sitting I will 
use native email composition, otherwise Evernote. 

Why Evernote versus MLO? (1) it's faster to get in and pull I up the last thing 
I was working on (2) Evernote's handling on Android of synch conflicts works 
much better than MLO's.

Lisa Stroyan <[email protected]> wrote:

Good question, I look forward to other answers as well.


I use MLO only for information relating to the task I have to accomplish, for 
various reasons:


- Habit

- Once a task is done, I often don't keep it, so anything I want kept around I 
put into a different system.

- I go by the philosophy, if an action only takes a few minutes, just do it, so 
usually I send the small emails immediately

- If I compose an email I want to put in the To: and Subject: and can't paste 
those easily from MLO

- I often work on multiple platforms and my drafts folder for gmail propagates 
to all

If a bit of info needs filing (e.g. movie and book recommendations) and I don't 
have time to do it immediately, I do put it in MLO.


On the other hand, this means that many tasks that show in email are not 
integrated / captured in MLO for me, so I have two systems, which is not ideal 
and drives me crazy but I don't have a good solution that I've been able to 
maintain reliably.


I do OTOH keep all info related to my task system in MLO. Outlines of what I 
want to do to rearrange my tasks, etc. 


I use Evernote for persistent info/lists (except task templates, such as 
packing lists which I use MLO trees as templates).


Lisa


On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:39 AM, robisme <[email protected]> wrote:

Often, a task consists in draft or write out a text, a minute, an answer to a 
mail or whatever.

In those cases, who use to "outsource" the process in another software 
(Evernote, Onenote, Outlook,), and who drafts his note into the note section of 
a task within MLO ?

I'd be very interested in someone else experience, pros and cons.


Sometime, I say to myself : separate the "organizing my todos" and the "doing 
them". Thus, I write notes in Evernote or Onenote.

But that make more "steps", and sometime in a mobile context, the links toward 
Evernote are not working on android, and I prefer to draft the text in MLO, and 
copy/paste it in a mail, a word document or whatever when the task consist of 
writing it out.


What about you ?

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