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On Friday, 6 November 2015 18:11:40 UTC, Lake Norman B2B Homes Boats wrote:
>
> Dear Ultra,   Would you mind sharing your method of organization   TODOs 
>  filters  tags contexts  etc ?   Screenshots and or personal contact?
> I would appreciate it. If you do not have the time, I fully understand and 
> thank you in advance.
>
>
> On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 1:57:01 AM UTC-4, Ultradianguy 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.  
>>
>>
>>

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