FYI also, I add a tool you might know : GSyncit, to sync google calendar and contacts and a lot of other tools I don't use, with Outlook. It as, like MLO, a "power user configuration", for exemple, categories sync with specific gmail account (I have 5 gmail accounts and I'm able to manage different contacts in the same folder in Outlook, using categories. Android must be ICS to manage "per account" contacts)
on the other hand, I don't use K9 as Gmail doesn't need to re-setup accounts. Is there a big vantage point with K9 ? I'm interested Thanks Olivier Le lundi 2 juillet 2012 20:53:17 UTC+2, Lisa S a écrit : > > Just FYI - I use K9 as well, but have it hooked up to Gmail with my drafts > folder set to be my gmail drafts folder. I can look up the specific > settings if you need them. > > It's kind of a pain to get back to my drafts in K9 though, have to go to > accounts, gmail, folders, drafts. So it might not be worth switching. > > Lisa > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Dwight <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 ? >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/PG38JafTMScJ. >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Lisa >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[email protected]> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Lisa > > ------------------------------ > Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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