I've played around quite a bit in both directions. (Keep in mind, for my current workflow, I'm mostly iOS based now. I still love the Windows app, but I'm on the go more and more, and have taken to doing everything I can on my iPhone and iPad)
Some of my tasks involve alot of large scale planning and thinking. iThoughts is another app I love, and I use it to death, but I've been taking to making plans that I'd end up tracking and implementing into MLO eventually anyway by entering them in directly into MLO. On the iPad, the view isn't so bad for outlining and brainstorming. You can easily past in a mindmap from an app like iThoughts or Mindmanager or Freemind into the Rapid Task Entry of the Windows app, however, and if you have parsing on and took the time to write in the info within the mindmap, you can have the same effect just as easily, with a bit more agility in the editing of the hierarchy within the mindmaps. For email replies that are just text, and most importantly I won't be tracking or anything, I'll usually write them into the notes field of a task in MLO. I used to reply to everything on the spot, but with the volume I get, I have to be pickier and prioritize which ones I can get to, which is where MLO comes in handy. If it takes a word or two in reply, it wouldn't hit MLO though. Recently, I've been handling the editing together of some plain text newsletters, and have been doing those in the notes field as well, since it forces it to remain in plain text, and keeps it accessible with the prompt to do it. I tend to keep logs there too, like time logs of billable time spent with clients or on projects, tracking things like weight, and other things that basically just need a module date stamped entry. If I want to process them elsewhere I do, but lists tend to be fine for me on many things, and I like how quick it is to enter them into a hierarchy of any complexity with ease using the bookmark features on the iOS apps. I tend to keep really complex project logs in the notes field's as well, some nearing a short novel at times over many months. I also record ideas in there at times that I flesh out upon review, like articles ideas, plans for remodeling our living space, etc. So though the initial entry is just a task, an entire plan and log can take shape over time with other lists and thinking along the way. Minor code snippets do just fine in MLO notes, as do posts on a website to make, much like this one. If the iOS apps had search, I'd certainly be keeping more of that kind of thing in MLO, but there is alot of benefit to keeping hard edges with this kind of stuff. My other apps of choice for content planning and creation type work are iThoughts, Notebooks, and Evernote. I'm a huge fan of Notebooks at the moment on the iOS end, being a refugee of Evernote until it scales better and has functional iOS Apps for larger databases like mine (60k+ notes). Can't recommend Notebooks enough. If you only need lightweight task management as well, it may suite your needs well enough. There are still real benefits on the iOS end to having that stuff separate though, the ability to switch between apps for different things handier than losing your place in your current one at times. -- 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/-/24yzOgvU8uAJ. 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.
