Me too J
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. >> >> >> -- 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/64e1c70e-de08-40d3-92be-7da0dc3b2578%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
