Am 12.12.2014 um 01:53 schrieb John Smith:
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" .
Tools, including computer software, that have a certain complexity
certainly require reading at least the "getting started" section. MLO is
such a tool. And the MLO docs *do* have a "getting started" section that
is very helpful. Everything else you can read when you need it. In my
view, MLO handles the complexity very well. You don't need to use custom
views, but you can do it if you want etc.
Keep in mind that MLO is not intended to be a mainstream tool for the
masses who don't read manuals and who probably find Google Tasks,
Wunderlist or Any.Do more than sufficient for their needs. MLO is rather
a powerful tool for productivity geeks who want to implement GTD or
other sophisticated methods, a tool where you feel that the authors know
the domain very well and pay attention to detail. I don't think it ever
wants to become the simple mainstream tool for everybody, which seems to
be your tacit assumption.
MLO is not more difficult to use than other sophisticated tools of that
complexity. Of course, you can always improve the software and the
communication. But MLO does not have hundreds of developers and PR guys
and revenue like Microsoft. In consideration of the fact that they are a
small team that needs to develop software versions for power users on
very different platforms (Windows, Android, iOS and soon MacOS) where
everything is moving quickly and the platform is already outdated when
you finished your product, I think they're doing a great job.
-- Chris
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