Hi MLO Team,

I'm a (very) long time user of MLO, having first used it on a PocketPC 
Phone Edition (anyone remember those)? Long before Apple even started 
thinking about phones, Microsoft released the now long dead Windows CE. 
I've since moved on to (currently) being a registered Desktop, Android, and 
CloudSync user. In all the years I've searched for tools to fully implement 
a GTD process, nothing (among literally hundreds of products I've looked at 
over the years) has ever been able to come close to being able to do it all 
in one tool. Except for MLO (and one other tool that DavidCo developed 
internally, but it was based on Lotus Notes (uhg), and didn't have anywhere 
near the functionality of your amazing little piece of software. 

I checked the website and couldn't find a specific method for submitting 
feature requests and product feedback so I thought I'd put it here, since I 
found a bunch of others already posted to this group when I did a search. 
As an aside, before I get into it, have you considered implementing 
UserVoice (https://www.uservoice.com/product/product-management/)? If you 
haven't heard of it, it's fantastic (at least from a user persepctive). 
There are a number of small development projects who make products that I 
use that have implemented it to gather feature requests from their user 
base. It does a whole lot more to support product development, apparently, 
but my experience with it is as a user. What makes it so fantastic from 
that point of view is that it maintains a list of features requested by the 
community, or suggested by the developers, and allows the users to vote on 
the features they'd most like to see. Each person gets a finite number of 
votes to apply, and can add one, two, or three votes to an item. These 
votes are then locked until either the user removes them to place somewhere 
else, the feature is implemented and the developer marks it complete, or 
it's retired.

Anyway, I'm not posting about user voice. I wanted to ask if it would be 
possible to add a capability to time entry fields/controls. I live on 
24-hour time and have all clocks in my life set to the 24-hour format. When 
ever I reference time in writing I simply have to type 4 digits. E.G. 7:39p 
= 1939; 3:07am = 0307.

So far the only place I enter time data is in due dates and reminders, but 
since my workflow is heavily dependent on reminders I interact with these 
fields very often. What I'd like to be able to do is enter the time of a 
reminder just as I've described above, without having to put in the colon.


I realize this is a special case and, as a hobbyist developer myself, I 
understand that one tries to avoid special cases as much as possible, but 
this one in particular would be really really nice to have :)

I know it probably doesn't seem like much, but since there's no : on the 
number pad, it's actually quite a distruptive shift to have to change over 
to the main keys, press shift then ;, then go back to the number pad to 
finish. In fact, even cooler would be, if I enter only two numbers, they be 
assumed to be the hour, and the minutes just set to :00.

At the moment, when i try to enter time like this, the control thinks I'm 
entering a year, and blows up my date. I've attached a couple of screen 
shots to illustrate.

I just spent an hour or so researching online the best practices for 
storing dates in software (datetime or separate date and time fields) and 
it looks to me like the controls that have been used conform to established 
best practices. I don't know how easy it to would be to code up the logic 
on the controls to evaluate for the condition I've asked for on the 
LeaveControl event, but if it's not too much trouble I'd really love it!

Thanks so much for building such a fantastic product! You have a customer 
for life.

Regards,
Alan Limebeer



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