If you are using MLO Cloud, it is time to worry about a possible hack of 
the cloud file )

However, I have long said that using HTML5-core (or similar) would simplify 
and unify the further development...

вторник, 21 июля 2015 г., 20:50:06 UTC+3 пользователь Dwight Arthur написал:
>
> Hi, Alan.
> You present a compelling case for an HTML5 implementation.  My concern is 
> that if my profile were accessible in this way I would feel the need to 
> purge it of account numbers,  passwords,  unpublished phone numbers etc. 
> This would reduce the value of MLO for me.
>
> I'm pretty certain that any affordable security can be broken by 
> well-funded professionals today and by millions of teenagers in a few years.
>
> Perhaps the time has come that t need to move everything sensitive into 
> the encrypted password vault and keep it out of MLO so that I can 
> participate in the benefist of a web version of MLO.
> -Dwight
> Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2
>
> On Jul 21, 2015, Alan Limebeer <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>
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