I have decided to basically settle on MLO after a long track of bouncng between various GTD apps, looking for the perfect environment. I always seem to come back to MLO, as soon after I move away from it, I miss various features other GTD apps are missing. It always seems MLO's pluses far out-weight it's negatives, chiefly being MLO being only on the Windows platform. This reason is often why I decided to move away, but the functionality and usability is so rich, I always come back. Granted I use both Windows (at work) and a Mac at home, I do have a full personal license of Windows that I run in a Parallels VM. So that cost of needing a Windows license if you're on a Mac, and the cost of the hypervisor, is surely a barrier for entry for many if your Mac only. I get that. But, that being said, Mac users need to find a way to trial MLO, you'll be surprised how much better it is that most Mac GTD apps out there. Same goes for Web-based GTD apps. Specifically, I favor MLO for a variety of reasons, this applies to the mobile app(s) as well. I use Android, so my comparisons below for mobile are based off Android. the iOS iPhone (and soon to be iPad) versions have leap-frogged Android somewhat in the visuals, but I still find MLO for Android pretty much superior to most of the other Android Task/GTD apps on the Play Store: - Parallel/sequential project/tasks/subtasks, aka "Complete subtasks in order". Anytime I try another task app that doesn't have this, I realize I cannot live without it. Also, being able to hide any task/subtask at will, also great - start date implementation (tickler, if you will). I live and die by start dates, and the fact that the default Acitve filter is that both the start date AND start time have to ellapse is phenomenal. Most other apps that implment start dates/ticklers only use the date, and not time. For me using start times (or having the option to) is crictical. During the work-week, I always have tons of tasks I need to do when I leave the office or at home, and I don't want even see them until mayb 4:30pm...I want to keep my distractions down. - Reminders, tons of options, syncs to mobile devices. And you get local Windows notification, not just an email. - This has been said MANY times by others on this Group, and is one of the main unique feature of MLO, which is the Outline & Todo modes. Most GTD and/or advanced task apps one or the other, but not both. And the way they work together in MLO is superb. In other tasks apps, I usually have to use mutliple contexts and/or tags, along with, if the task app is GTD based, an Areas of Focus category. In MLO, the Outline mode gives you ultimate flexibility, and you don't then need to overburden you tasks with a million tags (contexts) to organize. But then you can see you Active Actions as a todo, and further break htat down view Stars, and filters/views. Yet you know when you look at your Todo list views, behind the scenes everything is organized ultimately in the Outline. - Related, the configuration and options to set up the views, workspaces, etc, is unparalleled. Other apps might call it saveed searches or something, but MLO's flexibility to set up either an outline or todo view with the filter/view options is again unique to anything I've seen elsewhere. - Importance/Urgency "score calculation", as it factors into Active Actions ordering combined with dates (I don't use the Goals feature, but that calculates as well). This is much more advanced (and better) then simply High, Medium, Low. - Project implementation. I love the In Progress, Suspended, Not Started, etc. THat's how I have my Project view setup by those categories. I love the % calcualation, taking into consideration the "Effort" value if yo uput one in. Love how on both Windows and mobile you get the blue bar for how far along you are. I love how you can send a prepend string ([PROJECT: ]) so you clearly know in your Todo list view this is a project task. Again, I've seen no other GTD app implement projects as good as this. - recurrence options. by due or completion date - Rapid task entry dialog. Love how you can just bang-out a quick list right into the Inbox. Or, you can use it's lexicon to categorize and move the tasks into where you want them to be in the Outline. - automatatic formatting. This is just plain awesome... I can see which tasks are NEW, have notes, etc. I've totally customized this for myself, adding icons into MLO for Evernote, Gmail, Outlook, so I can quickly see if tasks have assoicated permalinks. I can quickly tell how many Evernote links I have by scrolling my eyes down the Icons column - Dragging Outlook emails as tasks, with link back to Outlook email. - Keyboard shortcuts - general speed of the app. - cloud sync. I do wish on Android it would sync automatically in the background thought :-/ - location based contexts/reminders on Android -
There is a lot more, that's just off the top of my head. -Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/47afc24f-5063-485c-b71f-5e133c7a4d86%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
