Hi John, I’m still not seeing where I’ve attacked you. If you take someone asking you if you’ve tried looking at the way you’re using the program as a personal attack worthy of multiple punctuation marks in reply, then maybe public discourse is not for you. I will, however, concede that you have become hysterical, and suggest that you save you exclamation points for something serious. This is a public forum about an app, John. You raised an issue and people responded to you. If I somehow struck a cord in what I wrote, which was written and reads as an entirely calm and calculated response to your issue, it’s probably because there is some truth to what I said.
Using contexts to see tasks in various views was one of the first things ever suggested to you when you started using MLO, which was 4 or more years ago as I recall. It’s also something repeatedly suggested to you in the time since. I’m not sure why it’s taken you that long to try it, or how that’s considered a “silly workaround” to anything. You can tag things with contexts to have them appear on their own in flat lists, or in the hierarchy they were written in. You can also arrange them within those views however you’d like. The default views do exactly that. They even named the context field after the GTD concept. There’s a GTD default template within MLO Windows too that you’re asked to pick from when you first start the program. Summing up what you said you have only a vague sense of in my previous reply: you made a bunch of posts stating what you would like MLO to do, and how you would like things in MLO to be organized and arranged. MLO already does all of that. Now you’re replacing your concept of “GTD Lists” with “doing GTD efficiently,” which sounds like another McGuffin. As I said regarding custom fields in MLO before, I think it’d be a wonderful addition and would love to have it, but that it also seemed not to address any of your problems in the slightest. Reading you go on about your issues, that appears to remain correct. I’m also not sure it’s possible for someone to agree with your frustrations with MLO because you’ve never successfully articulated them, and they seem to change based on the weather. It sounds like you’re just mismanaging your work, or frustrated with your work, potentially both. There’s not an app for that. If anything, MLO might make things worse because you can now mismanage your work on multiple levels, and are now given constant reminders of the work you’re frustrated about. Good luck with your GTD Lists, and have a good evening, morning, or afternoon, depending on where you’re at. Best, S -- 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/685a4a5b-063a-4315-bbc4-b56320beec54%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
