Ken: definitely. I enjoy having it appreciated so steal away :-) John: here's the thing. In the opinion of many of us here, MLO is an amazingly powerful, very carefully designed task management platform. (it's not really a task management system, in my opinion, but a platform. More on that in a sec) It's certainly not bug free, nor is it consistently the same level of sophistication in all areas. ( for example, rich text, documentation, etc) . No one is arguing that it's perfect. Honest.
But some things that you are vehemently calling bugs are intentional and appropriate design decisions, and have had a lot of smart people thinking in much detail about the best way to implement them cohesively with other features. This is not defensiveness or "because it's always been this way" which I think you will be able to see as time goes by....there are real design trade-offs in complicated software systems as I'm sure you know. However, some of the points you bring up are valid - but you can't really know which ones until you understand the system as it is. so coming in and saying "this is a stupid way to do things" takes people aback. So I ask you to come in with an attitude of, "explain what I'm not understanding ." And to realize that the people replying to your questions are other users, so you may not always get answers. I think one area of confusion is that MLO is not really an out-of-the-box wysiwyg task system, and should not be, when you get into the complexity that we are talking about. It's designed to support many methodologies robustly, and even though it uses GTD terminology and can be implemented as a GTD management system, it is not hardwired that way. My experience, even people that want a "pure" GTD system (which I moved away from years ago) implement it radically differently in MLO. so I guess that is my answer to a question you raised in another thread about do you really have to set up your MLO structure and why it doesn't just work intuitively. Yes. You do. It's the curse and the beauty of MLO , take it or leave it. then after you've explored it more, you will be better equipped to advocate for missing and unintuitive features. I can tell you will be good at that :-) let's see… I'm guessing you will be wanting a calendar view?(Sorry, inside joke). The good news is that you don't have to design your system all perfectly the first time because it's not that hard to change later. ( I've switched from context to flags to tree structure , for example, for my areas of focus. I just created a view that selected all tasks with a particular context or flag and edit them as a group ). I have actually begun to look at my task management system as something that has a natural evolution . I energize myself to organize my life by reviewing my processes and adjusting my MLO structure to match. thinking about my task management system organization is part of my review process and helps me organize myself as well. I used to be on my own case about always changing it, but you know? I think my brain just needs to keep it interesting. I hope you give MLO a chance to show off its amazing features as well as its quirks, rather than trying to line it up with the picture you have of what it ought to be. Be curious. (You might want to choose your on-list curiosities based on which ones you most want an answer for ). By the way, welcome to the crowd. On Dec 4, 2014 9:27 AM, "pottster" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You might want to adjust your vinegar to honey ratio accordingly... >> > > Love that expression! Have I your permission to borrow? > > -- > 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/47ceeb05-dc40-4f17-a6be-e5da391dbb00%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/47ceeb05-dc40-4f17-a6be-e5da391dbb00%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAJYFk%2B1Jo4a5YAeME7QuJLE1y4foRiTfkA1T4BNfqNS9yH8kCg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
