Hi, Olivier. I am actually headed in the other direction. In the late 20th century I happily used several monolithic PIMS: the palm pilot and later, Lotus Notes synched with Blackberry. Monolithic approaches are no longer so appealing. What I like now is a collection of interoperable best-in-class tools. For several reasons having to do with my idiosyncratic way of working, I like K-@Mail best for mail, and aCalendar+ for calendars. Neither of these are the world’s most popular apps, but they work well for me. If MLO demanded that I give up my apps and move everything under the big MLO umbrella I would probably be upset, as it’s unlikely that MLO’s calendar app would suit me as well, for example. And if it did suit me well it’s likely that it would not suit you or somebody else.
Luckily for me, interoperability has gotten easier. K-@Mail, aCalendar+, MsOutlook my phone’s dialer and Google Hangouts (for SMS and MMS among other things) all work cleanly and easily with contacts stored and managed in Google Contacts. Even Skype now takes contacts from Outlook which in turn (via GO Contact Sync) took them from Google. MLO does not work with any external source of contact info; MLO should fix that. Here are some of the interoperability features that I would like to see. It’s Android-centric, please imaging the equivalent functions for your favorite platform. - Link a task to a contact. Actually, link a task to multiple contacts, with tags like DelegatedBy, DelegatedTo, and FYI - In one or two clicks, link an Evernote note to a MLO task, so that the contents of the Evernote note are logically incorporated into the task’s note - Send a task (delegation of a task, status report on task execution) to linked contacts or others using some interchange format similar to .ics - Export tasks to a native task manager like outlook, google tasks, or whatever. For bonus points, let me define a special view in MLO such that all tasks that appear in that view will get synched to the local native task manager. So for example, on Android I could connect my To Do Today view to Google Tasks, and a simplified view of these tasks would appear on my calendar. For even more bonus points, changes I make on the Android side (completion, edits to description, etc) would get copied back to MLO while preserving all the data elements (urgency, dependency, context) that do not exist in Google - Option to send MLO reminders/alarms to email And so on . . . -Dwight From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of robisme (Olivier R) Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 9:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MLO] Re: MLO becoming a full PIM software (email, contacts, calendar, notes) Yes, I used it (Harmony Pim was its new name). It was coming with a lot of gadget features, imho. EssentialPim is closer from what I think MLO could be. It certainly is a big challenge, but I constantly wonder how could I separate todos from contacts and appointments, and presently, having not them connected makes me feel unconfortable. By the way, considering the price of the current version,such a full pim app would certainly be worth more than $100, I'd be willing to pay in advance as a subscription for future release. I'm pretty sure some of us would also be willing to. Am I wrong? Olivier Le samedi 28 février 2015 14:27:33 UTC+1, Andrei Bacean a écrit : Hi, nice idea but the development and support will take a lot of time. My current email database is > 2Gb, so integration of email into MLO will make it less portable. I used a long time ago a bundle called DoOrganizer. It had email, notes, passwords, calendar, a simple mindmappibg tool, contacts and so on. It was developed by a small team, and although the product was great, the development was very very slow. They even closed their forum due to a lack of feedback from the developers Developing such bundles is a big challenge. -- 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/bf174f54-6001-4619-b83b-1b910012bbdd%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/bf174f54-6001-4619-b83b-1b910012bbdd%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/008701d05531%2423b3aa80%246b1aff80%24%40dwightarthur.us. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
