Your suggestion makes sense, however as a person who does almost all MLO
work on mobile I would not be a user of a feature that's only available on
Windows. So please don't count me among your supporters.
On October 21, 2016 6:59:45 AM "John . Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:
PS
Windows Only?
It occurs to me that getting these Extra Fields to sync to the cloud
shouldn't be too difficult and that this would help users with multiple
computers.
However incorporating them into the Android/iOS mobile apps would
potentially be a lot of work - not to mention unwanted clutter - for the
MLO development team.
So what I suggest is that, in accordance with Lean Startup best practice,
that in the first instance these fields are simply not used by the mobile
apps, and that we see exactly how useful or not they are in the Windows
application first.
After all, stand alone Windows applications clearly have their place. And
if the project is made too large & expensive from the off, it will simply
never happen. Moreover if very few users wind up using these new Extra
Fields the developers could quietly forget about developing them further.
What think you?
J
On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 9:45:25 PM UTC+1, John . Smith wrote:
OK it seems to me that several of the advanced users of MLO are in favour
of this request.
It sounds like we would all be extra task fields (AKA "Custom Task
Attributes") for our own different purposes but a number of people are now
saying that this would be extremely useful.
I also don't think such that think should trouble the heads of naive users
as it could be buried deep within the more complex menus etc, but I for one
would find having 2 or 3 such fields to be utterly transformative,
particularly if:
A) the user could also control which fields inherit their values from
parents.
B) the user could control if it is not just plain text, what type of list
each field was.
ToDoList from Abstract Spoon has the following options for their extra
trask fields ("Custom Task Attributes"):
- Not a list (just plain text)
- Dynamic Data, single selection
- Fixed Data, single selection
- Dynamic Data, multi-selection
- Fixed Data, multi-selection
And for where the data is "Fixed" they provide a multi-line text box.
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Is anyone with me on this?
If so would anyone like to officially submit it to MLO (as I believe that
no longer can!)
Cheers
J
On Monday, September 5, 2016 at 12:07:33 PM UTC+1, John . Smith wrote:
Hello
I have recently been spending time with an MLO competitor which has a
feature that they call "Custom Task Attributes", which I consider to be a
total game-changer.
In effect these are task fields that you can add for yourself, and name
them to whatever suits you, and then have them show up everywhere as if
they were standard task data fields. And fwiw, you seem to be allowed to
add a large number (e.g. 10?) of such "Custom Task Attributes" if you want.
Moreover you can even chose whether each new field is plain text, or is a
list. And if the field is to be a list, is it multi-selection or single
selection. (And even whether data can be added to it by the user).
To me this is jaw-droppingly powerful and takes the configurability of
the system to a whole new level.
Any takers?
J
PS If you are a follower of GTD method, please note that the above allows
you to add fields like "Area of Responsibility" and action status (e.g.
"Waiting", "Sometime-Maybe", "Active", "Later" etc), and even a "Waiting
For" user field... without resorting to messy workarounds.
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