I briefly stopped using MLO for several months, switching to Wunderlist. Then I cam to my senses.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Ultradianguy <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just returned to MLO after 4 years of trying various other systems in > a GTD model. First time around I found MLO too awkward and difficult to > use. I've tried Todoist (which I like a lot but not for complex projects), > and Trello several others. But they all lacked certain power, so now - I'm > back to MLO and this time around I've learned to use it much better and > learned to use the GTD Focus 4 Power (or something like that) Template. > It's a really great program. I can live with the complexity and drilling > down through many menus to get to the features. > > But what I'm really frustrated with is the complete lack of integrations > that almost every task manager has. > > For instance: > Todoinst and Trello support emailing tasks directly to a list or inbox or > category > Todoist and Trello both have chrome addins that let you add tasks directly > from Gmail without even using the forwarded email capability. > Todoist has a way to integrate into the Outlook window making it easier to > create tasks while in Outlook. > Both Todoist and Trello have integrations through Zapier and IFTTT and can > connect to OneNote as well as many other apps via those mechanisms. (And > OneNote lets you add tasks directly to Outlook without leaving OneNote). > > MLO has none of these. > The only integration MLO has is Outlook Sync and Outlook Drag and Drop but > neither works well in current corporate configurations. In fact, one of the > biggest reasons I gave up the first time is that the Outlook sync was so > buggy. I tried to do two way sync with category/context matching and it > ended up being a big mess > I just tried it again - if I do sync to outlook, tasks keep reappearing in > MLO in the inbox from Outlook even after they've been processed once within > MLO. > I'd be happy with the Drag and Drop of emails to MLO, but the link back to > Outlook doesn't work as has been reported by other users as well. Perhaps > it works under some conditions, but not in a typical corporate set up. > > So really where I've arrived is that the only safe thing to do is just > create my tasks in MLO by hand based on emails in Outlook and Gmail. So at > best it's a trade off between the simplicity and superior integration of > Todoist and Trello and many other tools vs the tremendous power and > flexibility of MLO, albeit without any reliable integration with anything > else. > > I really hope the MLO team will take this seriously. It doesn't seem to > me that the Outlook integration has improved one bit since I tried it 4 > years ago when version 4 had just come out. In fact, it seems worse as > Outlook itself has changed. MLO already has the Cloud Sync. It needs to > support emailing into that cloud. And genuinely robust integration with > Outlook. Support of IFTTT or Zapier or Gmail integration (for example via > Powerbot) would be great, but I could live without that if the other two > worked. > > > -- > 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/d0ab1ca3-d4e4-41bf-8920-6cf1bb3f7212%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/d0ab1ca3-d4e4-41bf-8920-6cf1bb3f7212%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CALBn8KoDpKOUQwLzzUJnjc1oqeoyxTnd3OsNGGtDZ7O7vp_ypg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
