Oh dear. My concern is that if we do include mobile apps... do you think
this project would be too large to ever, ever happen?
J
On Friday, October 21, 2016 at 1:57:42 PM UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote:
>
> 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" <shi...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p4qsmWsB1NE/WAksjTjZv6I/AAAAAAAAAW0/Kg3umm8k4jMXtQb_pyH3gFEnWQjpAMHPACLcB/s1600/delme-custom-fields.jpg>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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