On a long car journey today I started telling a highly computer literate scientific friend about my latest discovery to help me manage time. And one of the first things he said was "nobody reads manuals anymore."
And a bit later "complex things should be obvious and easy to use immediately , but the complexity should be there when you need it" . Go figure! On 11 Dec 2014 16:22, "Saumil Vyas" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/5b51f215-7e97-4d5c-a8ff-3745384dd831%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/CAEN65JbLWHSKxOmBL%3Dvk%3DS%2BNVNyn2XKYadLMfhk7zy%2BLaYPO6A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
