I too love the app! I've been using MLO on-and-off since it was a PocketPC product. Previous to my current implementation, which I've been in for the last six months or so, I never fully committed to using MLO as my sole task and project manager. Since I've dived in whole hog this time, it has become an invaluable tool in my quest for "mind like water" (I often wonder if I'm the only one who finds that phrase awkward and ridiculous sounding) and I've explored and expanded the feature-set items I use regularly, with wild success. Since taking the comprehensive plunge, I've truly been experiencing a mental freedom devoid of the stress and anxiety that I'm missing something. Coupled with the automated list limiting features, I've finally got a GTD implementation that let's me collect EVERYTHING! while at the same time, boils my daily to do list into a flat, manageable 10-12 items.
So, aside from a few idiosyncratic and personal nice-to-haves that it doesn't do (yet, hopefully) I consider the desktop version to be "feature complete", for my uses at least. But, as the modern computing platform has evolved to include 5-inch touchscreens that we carry with us everywhere we go, there's always new work to do. Mix that multi-platform smartphone environment, each requiring a separate and non-reuseable codebase that has to be built, maintained, and extended separately, along with the rise of the MacOSX platform providing a user-base large enough to make writing software for it sustainable, the Development and Management of a product that supports them all is a software company's biggest challenge, and a development team's manager's largest headache and source of nightmares. In this modern computing environment, the write-once, run-anywhere holy grail (that Java was supposed to be, but never can be while the windowing system and UI elements have to be hosted in the sandbox) is the software maker's idea of heaven. With the release and refinements of the HTML5 standard we're closer to that than ever before. This is all to come around to my suggestion that the Android, iOS, and any other mobile platform currently in development be frozen at the next version in favor of an HTML5 version which will be functional on any platform that supports a strict HTML5 browser. Additionally, it opens up the online feature that many (myself included) would love to have. I can only speak for myself, but I would anticipate that one might object to such a proposal because regardless of the advanced capabilities of the HTML5 environment, it will never be able to reproduce the full functionality of the desktop OS version. To which I'd answer, first, you'd be surprised, and secondly (and more importantly) it wouldn't need to. Something I've been noticing in recent years is the common perception or belief that a 5 - 12" touchscreen based interface should and can do everything a multi-monitor keyboard and mouse based interface can do. Spelled out this explicitly, its an obvious straw man, but this is truly what seems to be a commonly held belief and conviction in the IT/Computer/OS/Device Manufacturer industries. I think the realization is starting to dawn that these very different platforms have very different use cases, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, and each with their own ideal solutions to different problems and activities. Rather than these small screens directed by touch replacing or subverting the workstation, instead, they're an extension, and an addition to the capabilities granted to us by their use. This is all to say that the online and mobile versions of this fantastic don't need to be of the kitchen sink variety, but rather, only need to provide the capability to perform the kinds of tasks suited to on-the-go mobile task management. I'm not going to go into any more detail here since the last 45 minutes shoudln't have been spent writing this, but I'd be more that happy to discuss these ideas further if anyone is interested in engaging. Just two last quick things to mention. The first is to offer an real-world example of a company and software tool that took exactly this approach when they turned to implement their online-based outliner tool on mobile devices. Prior to getting back into MLO this was my go-to tool for task management. And while it's a fantastic tool, my task list of hundreds of items finally out-grew the manageability capability of straight-up hierarchical outliner (though the developers have added many features beyond basic hierarchical list management since, including due dates, tagging, and dozens of other features). It's called Checkvist, and can be found here: https://checkvist.com/auth/index_b?utm_expid=12887342-5.NGwmvD7YQZqaulJjAq0RVw.1&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fcheckvist.com%2Fauth%2Flogin The second thing is a comment only tangential to the OP but it addresses comments I've been reading recently that indicate a dissatisfaction in the userbase with the MLO development team's seeming withdrawal from the community and lack of current information, regular updates, and a general silence from what was once a largely interactive relationship. This is common as products and companies grow as the challenge to produce commercially viable software quickly starts to put the community development in the backseat. I beleive this happens primarily due to antiquated software project methodologies and I want to suggest to the MLO management team that they take a look at these two modern approaches to product creation software development. The first is: Running Lean http://leanstack.com/ And the second, probably much more commonly known: Agile Methodology http://agilemethodology.org/ On Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:32:46 UTC-4, osaga wrote: > > Will an online client version of MLO every be complete? It seems very > logical to do this. > > Love the app, > Thanks > -- 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]. 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