Short explanation - 

I did but I'm actually having a hard time from a big picture point of view 
when it comes to synchronizing data in general.

Long explanation - 

The GTD model recommends that all of your tasks get funneled into a single 
inbox as a starting point but there seems to be no easy and reliable way to 
do this.  Let's say that I want to use my outlook.com email as the starting 
point where I dump all my information.  This works fine from a desktop 
computer, but android does not natively support outlook tasks (or google 
tasks for that matter).  The MLO app for android does not directly sync 
this information either, which means that one must add another layer of 
synchronization to their GTD process.

Let's say that instead of using outlook as my inbox starting point, I use 
MLO.  This now means that I have to have access to MLO and Outlook so that 
I may manually copy and paste information from emails over to MLO instead 
of just converting an email to a task.  This process becomes even more 
cumbersome on a cellphone screen.  Some might say that I could create a 
task by forwarding the email as an easy fix.  However, email is not the 
only source of where my tasks can come from.  I need to sort through the 
information from text messages, voice mail, social media - 
facebook/linkedin events, messages, evernote, my password management 
program, quicken, youmail, etc.

Personally, I am impartial to which program I end up using for an inbox 
starting point but for the time being it seems that an email client is the 
closest thing.  This is not an endorsement for Outlook as a GTD program, 
but merely to illustrate my point.  Outlook can be set up with unified 
communications so that voice messages get sent there and transcribed 
(google voice, youmail, and others do this).  Evernote and OneNote both 
have plugins for outlook that let you move your data to either notebook 
program.  From Onenote, you can assign todo list items which show up in 
outlook.  The issue of course is that some of this data needs to be moved 
to a more sophisticated project management program such as MLO, which 
brings us back to the synchronization issues.

On Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:49:14 AM UTC-4, robisme (Olivier R) wrote:
>
> Why don't you try the Android MLO app?
>
>
> Le mardi 18 mars 2014 06:56:14 UTC+1, AbeG a écrit :
>>
>> Just thought I'd start a thread about the best apps that people are aware 
>> of to use with MLO.
>>
>> I recently started using a free app for android called Tasks & Notes 
>> which lets you view, edit, and receive alerts for your outlook.comtasks.  
>> I've been using it for a few weeks now and it seems to be working 
>> pretty well with the desktop version of outlook and syncing data to MLO.  
>>
>

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