John, I completely agree with you and I had posted my frustration about one year ago on this forum.
What I understand is the people already are using MLO have come up with their own systems that works for each of them. It is very hard for them to share it in system as a whole. This is not an offense, just an observation. Most of them will solve smaller problem at hand and move on. For bigger view, they will either say use the template or go figure out yourself. The new user group part: MLO actually has multiple groups within this Google Groups, i.e. MyLifeOrganized <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mylifeorganized>, MyLifeOrganized for Android <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mlo-android>, etc. Well they have a lot of overlapping features, still separate from each other. Why don't they add one more "MLO Newbies", right here. The owners/developers need to step up and hire/pay Lisa or Dwight or whoever to build a "Work flow chart". That would help a lot. My 2 cents, who cares anyway. On Monday, December 8, 2014 9:03:49 AM UTC-5, John Smith wrote: > > Hello > > It is clear that new users and long-time users have very different > requirements. > > I think it's important for the long-time users of MLO to have a place > where they can have in depth, carefully considered conversation, normally > having read the relevant parts of the manual about the extremely complex > system (or should I say 'platform'? ;^) ) that his MLO. And to be able to > do so without distracting noise & chatter from new users. > > As a new user I would like a place where I can have a very different, much > more informal sort of conversation. When I first moved to MLO I wanted to > be able to spray out at least 1 at least one question every half hour of > using the system. But I did not want to irritate the experts during the > process. I do NOT expect to have all my questions answered. I want > something more like a chat room or Twitter, where you tweet out to the > universe and you may or may not get a direct message back, depending on > whether or not anyone else is listening (i.e. following *and* reading). I > also want to be able to retract or edit my questions if I discover answer > to my question or have the misspelled something before anyone got to answer > my question. > > Possible solutions: > > 1. Another Google Group. > It's quite easy to start another Google Group called say > "MyLifeOrganised.new.users" > On the down side editing posts appears to be impossible (??) > > 2. Google+ > Perhaps a more modern solution? > (Although I have never used it seriously) > > 3. A Free Hosted Forum > e.g. > - https://www.proboards.com/free-forum-features > - http://www.lefora.com/ > - ?? > > > Any thoughts/other suggestions? > > If nobody stops me in the first instance I will probably just start new > Google Group as a experiment, but with the clear understanding that we > decide to delete the whole group if unsuccessful and/or anyone has a better > idea. > > J > -- 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/5b51f215-7e97-4d5c-a8ff-3745384dd831%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
