Hi all. On Facebook board I have posted a proposal of HOW it could be made. If you like you can read my long post that i copy here below, where I also report some remarks by Andrey (MLO) and Rick Kennedy. What do you think about?
---------------------------------FACEBOOK POSTS------------------- Copied from Facebook proposals: ------------------- Roberto Penzo 23 Dec 2016 : WHAT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO GET: 1 - please, please...bidirectional sync with Google Calendar as fully as possible; 2 - manual sort views (one at least) sync thru al the devices. ------------------- MyLifeOrganized - MLO Thanks Roberto. 1 - how do you see this sync? MLO stores tasks and Calendar events. Do you want *all* mlo tasks with dates to be moved to the calendar and synced? I guess there would be a mess if we do it. How do you see it? Andrey. ------------------- Roberto Penzo: About the current MLO calendar, let me first say which would be for me the best MLO-calendar way of integration. TARGET: the goal for me is a way to drag & drop a task from a tasklist and place it on a free slot of a Google calendar view already populated with the Google events of my life. This is a very intuitive and way to Get Things Done: every time I worked in that way, using for instance the Android app IsoTimer to merge events and tasks on a visual calendar, I experimented a period of extra personal productivity. But IsoTimer is not as performing as MLO! How to implement this? Only a proposal: ----PLAN VIEW---- Create a "PLAN VIEW" (at least on MLO Desktop, I do not think that a smartphone has the power to do this in a very useable way, hope to be wrong...): - ZONE 1 (top of the screen): Google Calendar view. Shows the events of the Google Calendar in a week or day table: days as columns, hours of the day as rows, rectangles as events, with the width proportional to the duration of the event. This is very important, as it lets you to find the free time slots where to put the tasks (see below, ZONE 2). Ability to filter the events by "calendar layers" (in Google Calendar you can create several different "calendars" all overlapped as different layers - every event stays on only one calendar layer). - ZONE 2 (bottom of the screen): MLO task list (with ability to filter by context or flags...). - PLANNING FEATURES: When I drag and drop a task, a event is created on the Google Calendar cloud database, with date/start time of the drop position. DETAILS: 1 - while dragging the task, a dialog window will ask on which "calendar layer" to create the corresponding event on Google Calendar database (default: the last one used). 2 - the task will get a default duration (or a dialog box could propose it), but a way to shorten or lengthen it is needed (stretch the lower edge of the rectangle...). 3 - the task on MLO will get a (new) Context with the name of the selected "calendar Layer". 4 - the sync will be bidirectional for all the "calendar layers" of Google Calendar database. "calendar layer <-> Context. Eventually a enable sync table would be useful to choose which calendar layers to consider on sync. 5 - if I take off a Context from a task in MLO, it will be deleted on the corresponding "calendar layer" on Google Calendar (if sync enabled for this layer). 6 - If I delete a event from a "calendar layer", the corresponding task will loose the Context of that calendar layer. 7 - TOP OF THE TOPS: ability to drag and drop and edit a event on the ZONE 1 (Google Calendar). Human-made daily re-planning! 8 - Events from recurring tasks or tasks from recurring events: a very complicated matter. Too long to discuss, not for now. MY FEEDBACK ON CURRENT MLO CALENDAR VIEW (only on MLO Android, named TODAY, not on MLO Windiws). 1 - the visual plan (the zone just below the plot) shows only a single day in a single row, so no room for text inside the boxes representing the events, expecially for short events. 2 - if you touch a box you do not get the corresponding event selected. Only the opposite works: event -> box, and only one at a time. 3 - You can not create any event from a task, so not possible to made-up a reliable plan map of the day or the week. 4 - The plot only gives you an idea of how many tasks are placed on that day. This space could be used to create a daily or weekly calendar table view of the events similar to Google Calendar. Sorry for the long analysis. Hope it is clear. Mi piace · Rispondi · 1 · 28 dicembre 2016 alle ore 18:59 MyLifeOrganized - MLO MyLifeOrganized - MLO Roberto Penzo Thank you! Andrey. ------------------- Rick Kennedy 30 Dec 2016: You've thought more about the details than I have. From a user perspective, I just want to drag a task to the calendar. If I drag it to an empty space, it creates a (linked?) calendar entry, and if I drag it to an existing calendar entry, it "assigns" the task to that event, tracks and displays the total number and duration of tasks assigned to that event, and stops me when the event fills up. The event then becomes a "container" for an arbitrary number of tasks that I assign to it. I have seen the first part of this capability before (Might have been Pocket Informant on my iPad, or maybe it was a Franklin planner app on my old tablet PC), but I have never seen the second capability anywhere. Would be great, though. Roberto Penzo The "container" is a new concept for me. It would be nice too. Thank you. Il giorno lunedì 5 aprile 2010 16:10:58 UTC+2, Tobias Leenaert ha scritto: > > hello :-) > > i'm a big fan of MLO, but one thing i find lacking is integration in > google calendar (i did a search but didn't see much on that subject). > right now, when i enter a new task in MLO, i also enter it separately > on my google calendar, where i have a better weekly overview. is there > any demand for this, or how do other people solve it? > > thanks > Tobias > > -- 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/753ba14b-4c09-4fb0-a2eb-3dcf556a122d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
