To get clear Dwight, how useful or not would it be to you to have a mobile version of what is being proposed here implemented?
On 22 October 2016 at 14:50, Dwight <m...@dwightarthur.us> wrote: > Just to clarify > > I am not opposing the development of a Windows-only solution such as you > are discussing. I understand and respect Nick's reasons for opposing this > but for me, it's more like the question of developing a Mac version. It is > irrelevant to me, and I won't use it. It may have enough value for others > to warrant developing it, and it may not; the people who will experience > the benefit should go ahead and make their case and I will sit this one out. > > -Dwight > > On 10/22/2016 5:54 AM, John . Smith wrote: > >> >> There's already too many features that are Windows only and I wouldn't >>> >> want to see more. >> I have looked long and hard at MLO. Compared to almost all other task >> management applications it is already overwhelmingly complex but highly >> configurable - so much so that most advanced users of MLO seem to agree >> that in truth it is more of a task management /*platform */than a task >> management /*application*/. >> >> In short the "not too many features" battle is *already lost* a long >> time ago. >> >> My complaint is that despite trying about 10 different ways of doing >> things, nothing I can do really gets it to do what I need it to do. >> Personally I am trying to do a slightly modified GTD method and I need >> an "Area of Life" field and an "actionable status" (for what of a better >> phrase), both of which would need to inherit from parent task whenever >> any new task is created. But my feeling is that every user will >> probably have their own requirements and that this would be utterly >> transformative to how useful the MLO task management application is. >> >> For any users like Dwight who are mainly using the mobile apps yes, it >> would be critical to have some way of implementing these fields on the >> apps. The big problem is that I fear that this will never ever happen >> as the project becomes much more expensive. The other big problem is >> that within any mobile phone app, clutter does become a big problem and >> so exactly how this should best be implemented is not clear. >> >> My latest thought is that 3 such customisable fields is all that would >> be required. >> >> Dwight, SRhyse do you have any thought about this? >> - Exactly how useful would such fields really be to you (on a scale 0 - >> 10) >> - What would you use them for? >> - How & where would you imaging that they might be added to the MLO >> mobile apps? >> - What do you think the chances are of MLO doing any of the above would >> be? (on a scale 0 - 10) >> >> J >> >> >> PS The other solution would be for MLO to actually build a field called >> "Area of Life" and another one called "Actionable Status" (or similar >> names) ... but if hardcoded I can hear the squeals of protest of >> "clutter" and of them not being the names that other users want for >> their own purposes. >> >> My tentative solution to the "clutter" / "bloatware" complaint is that >> they should be buried somewhere and only switched on as advanced >> settings for advanced users. >> >> >> On Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 9:22:00 AM UTC+1, Nick Clark wrote: >> >> There's already too many features that are Windows only and I >> wouldn't want to see more. >> In addition to adding these fields you are also requiring that the >> custom view engine be updated to include them. If the mobile apps >> couldn't use them then Views transferred to them wouldn't work either. >> So I agree with Dwight, it needs to include the mobile apps to be >> supported. >> >> -- >> 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 mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com>. >> 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/61253bda- >> 03b8-46ce-a415-6ddee07bcdbc%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/61253bda- >> 03b8-46ce-a415-6ddee07bcdbc%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium= >> email&utm_source=footer>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to > pic/mylifeorganized/aHvLaU7lGuE/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms > gid/mylifeorganized/aae66544-0295-2ce4-9903-89882102b8c3%40dwightarthur.us > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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