Mlo would provide the details of their web interface and/or API neither of which currently exists
On Oct 27, 2015, "John . Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Wow. Yes, IFTTT is pretty interesting. > >In simple terms, you give your login details on various different >websites >or "channels" (e.g. Twitter, Facebook but also your fitness smartband, >your >calendar, various shops, your central heating thermostat, your smart >Belkin >WeMo mains power switch, RSS news feed input/weather report [etc etc]) >to >IFTTT.com and you can define Trigger events in one place to cause >something >else to happen somewhere else. (e.g. send an SMS, write an Evernote >note, >turn on/off/up/down central heating, store a copy of image/article [etc > >etc] ). > >i.e. You have a trigger event somewhere and though a flow simple logic >something else is caused to happen elsewhere. > >...Something like that? > >Yes, it is *extremely *cool. Putting aside the inevitable slightly >geeky >feel to such a universe (not to mention distinct concerns about >security/personal privacy) and questions about whether a mainstream >audience will ever take it up en masse... > >...what would be involved for MLO to be able to interface with such a >thing? > > > > > > > > > > >On Sunday, October 25, 2015 at 3:39:03 PM UTC, John . Smith wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello >> >> Where is MLO evolving towards? >> >> I woke up in the night thinking that the ideal "task manager" >application >> should be able to make "tasks" out of various things - simply by >> right-clicking on them from elsewhere. e.g. >> - documents (text, msWord Docs, spreadsheets, mind maps etc) >> - media (Images, movies, vector diagrams, flow diagrams, etc) >> - Emails & appointment & Contacts (i.e. msOutlook type data) >> >> For this to work, it would be good if all of the above (including >> individual emails) were available as individual external files in the > >> operating system. i.e. It should be possible to *associate* more or >less >> any external file with a new Task. And ideally with existing tasks >too. >> >> Re-thinking "tasks" from the ground up... >> >> In order to make something into "a task" (i.e. "a thing that I intend >to >> do"), there are various things that need to be associated with a >task. Most >> of these already occur within MLO. (The only exception is Area of >Focus - >> which is not a field as such in MLO). >> >> HOW IT FITS IN >> - Area of focus (areas of live) >> - Major Project name(s?) (maybe use a dropdown list?) >> - Sub-project name(s) >> >> WHEN TO EXECUTE IT >> - Due date >> - Start date >> - contexts (moods/mode/locations of user) >> - goal (time based) >> >> PRIORITY >> - stars (do today) >> - urgency >> - importance >> >> SEARCHABILITY >> - text tags (as done by Evernote) >> - Other users involved >> >> MARKUP (quick visual search within a screen) >> - flags >> - bold >> - colours >> >> OTHER >> - Dependency (other tasks that must happen first) >> - Review date (when to see/revisit it) >> - Recurrence data (when and how often it happens again) >> >> Within MLO one would then have have all manner of views and reports >that >> the user can customize much like we currently have. (IMHO, the major >thing >> currently missing would seem to be decent calendar showing Start Date >and >> End Date for tasks, particularly if they are Goals). >> >> But "fair is fair" and I think any MLO Task should be readily >accessible >> by other applications. Surely the simplest way to do this would be >for >> each task should be stored in as a FILE in the O/S. Either that or >all Task >> data is all stored in a standardised open source database (which in >some >> ways is what an o/s "file" is in any case, no?) >> >> I guess what I am really saying is that I don't like the way that MLO >and >> many other applications for that matter, have ring-fenced structures. >It is >> stupid to have to send a copy of an email to MLO in order for it to >be >> associated with an MLO Task. Surely it would be better to have a >*single* >> master copy of each email - which should be editable and deletable >globally. >> >> An alternative is of course to have a full-on, formal API for MLO and >to >> allow other applications to see and edit all tasks. But that feels >> painfully clunky. After all, it's hard to imagine Wouldn't it be >better to >> have "one file - one task" and no API required? >> >> Likewise as MLO expends, it is surely bonkers for MLO to have to >re-invent >> it's own document editor in order to store text with fonts markup, >colour, >> layout, URLs and ultimately embedded images/movies etc. >> >> And it also seems a bit bonkers for MLO to have to re-invent an >entire >> Calendar way of viewing (Day, Weekly, Monthly views plus List views). >> >> And I don't think that just using Open Source code gets you there >either. >> I think what I'm arguing for is to effectively have "Open Source >Data" that >> is easy for other applications to edit and which conforms to certain >agreed >> Open standards. i.e. To have "open data" / "open content" [??] that >is open >> across any one user's PC / mobile device / cloud. >> >> The alternative seems to be that as MLO expands the reach of it's own > >> universe (of data that it can us) it gets more an more bloated, with >more >> an more stuff for users to learn their way around. AND worse, the >user has >> duplicate copies off stuff (e.g. emails) all over the place. >> >> TBH, I am at the limits of my technical knowledge on this, and have >no >> wish for a detailed technical discussion. I am simply arguing the >case from *the >> user's *perspective. >> >> To what extent do I have a point? >> >> J >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- Sent with K-@ Mail - the evolution of emailing. -- 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/2e5d09c9-4874-47a3-bdbd-bb1817a4445d%40dwightarthur.us. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
