Just to re-iterate that I have now spent many months spent trying to implement the GTD method on MLO Windows and very reluctantly I have been forced to the conclusion that for users like myself who have a fairly large number of tasks (400-500) on my system, that messy workaround *simply don't work*.
i.e. We need an actual field in MLO's database for actionable status (Active, Sometime, Waiting etc) - and ideally another field for "Area of Focus" (AKA "Area of Life"). Either that or we need extra fields that we can customise to behave as such. As a bonus we also probably need to be able to control the defaults for any such fields. Yes, I can see that it would be a fair amount of work for MLO to implement this, and yes it would be adding yet more complexity to an already complex interface. MLO Windows is a mature, extremely powerful tool that is wonderful in many, many ways. And the MLO mobile apps continue to go from strength to strength. However after months and months of experimentation, including seeking of much advice on this forum, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that without these fields MLO is effectively crippled for use by the power user and for large numbers of tasks using the *GTD method* it is simply *unusable*. It's a serious, serious shame. J On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 12:31:35 PM UTC+1, John . Smith wrote: > > Yes, custom fields are very, VERY powerful. > And would take power use of MLO to whole new level. > > J > > > On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 4:27:40 AM UTC+1, pottster wrote: >> >> Interestingly, Asana have just added custom field functionality >> https://blog.asana.com/2016/09/track-anything-with-custom-fields/ >> >> The more I think about this the more I feel it might be THE big missing >> functionality for MLO power users. The use cases in the Asana blog article >> give an insight about how this feature could be leveraged. >> >> On Thursday, 8 September 2016 00:28:27 UTC+1, Stéph wrote: >>> >>> I would LOVE an option to select whether to inherit attributes from >>> parent, from sibling, or (for dates) to preset a date to Today. >>> >>> Bonsai used to have this feature. >>> >>> Stéph >> >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/e930dd49-036a-4f57-a85b-bd9739149d66%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
