Wow! You know how some days you just feel like an idiot? I just had one of those ones. After writing this novel, i posted it and looked at the top of the topics list and what do I see? I pinned topic on adding feature requests, that directs users to UserVoice, of all things. Grrrrrrr. D'oh.
On Thursday, 4 June 2015 10:57:00 UTC-4, Alan Limebeer wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- 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/6a9385dc-f9ae-45a1-9f3e-976d65909630%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
