Dwight - Comment 1. Ingenious as ever! Thank you - I shall investigate in due course and revert.
General comments: Yes although I too do love the power of the MLO 'platform', let me say clearly that overall I am pretty UNhappy with MLO and despite my huge investment in time learning my way around MLO, I am still on the lookout for something easier and better. To be fair my psychology is more Mainstream. i.e. My main priotities are that time is valuable and I just want to get things done. In short I do not want a 'Platform', I want an excellent 'Application'. What I want is something simple, intuitive and with an easy learning curve and which doesn't waste my time. MLO is a bit like selling someone a computer language and saying "go build your own system". Yes that's great for a number of users who enjoy that sort of thing - the geeks. In this case Productivity Geeks. But the rest of us want to get stuff done and to get on with our lives! So I am arguing the case for someone to build a really nice, simple, uncluttered MLO "Application" (rather than a platform) that would become "a platform" only when you click the Expert mode button. What this would look like, I have no idea - only extensive user trials and testing would decide this. (Clue: If any of you have read The Lean Startup or the work of Steven Blank then you will know what I'm on about!) It seems to me that MLO is what you get if you try and please ALL the people at once, and add almost everything everyone asks for. Yes it's amazingly powerful and yes, it's fine for geeks but it's very, VERY cluttered. I concede that it is just possible that unlike other types of application (think graphic design, email etc) there may be something about productivity / time management which means that certain users can ONLY operate in their own particular way. However even these would surely fall into clusters of users with similar requirements and it is just possible that there might be space for a small handful of application variants (maybe as many as say 4 or 5??) that would need to exist in parallel with each other. I contend that the reason why MLO still has any significant number of new customer is because all the other productivity tools are frankly *terrible*. In my case I spent about a week of my life trialling all the market leaders and I was appalled at how useless the basics of their interfaces were - I just couldn't believe it! But that won't last. Eventually someone will build something that will blow MLO out of the water. (Or maybe it will be 5 different companies building 5 different applications - each of when are suitable for each different section of users who insist in thinking in a particular way... ) And that will be a huge shame for everyone here. OK, I've said my piece. The reason I mention it is mostly because I fear that MLO is too niche and geeky and will ultimately go bust, or at best die a slow death gradually wither on the vine. PS. Did MLO ever get around to at last building some explainer videos for newbies yet? -- 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/c07f387d-a8dd-472f-b35b-df9d696f03dd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
