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Steph, I agree that the ability to read an MLO database as an XML
structure would open the door for a lot of extended functionality
but I believe an API would be better, because of a greater chance
of leveraging the strengths of MLO.
I believe that the greatest strength of MLO is the ability to
create and save a view with advanced filters and formats; with a
little work you can create a view to answer any question you could
have about your tasks. I would like to see API calls to insert or
modify a task, and I would also like to be able to create a view,
and whenever the first task in the view changes, to have MLO pass
information about the task that's now first in the view to an app
I specify. For example, I might create a view that shows overdue
and nearly due tasks at normal importance, with the view normally
empty. When a task approaches its due date it would appear on the
view, which would get it passed to my app, which would use the API
to increase the importance, which would cause it to drop off of
the nearly-due view and also to appear on my view of the most
important tasks. This kind of thing is probably too complex for
most users; but the point is that you would be able to use the
ultra-powerful MLO advanced filter specification to select tasks
that need a modification, then use the API to modify the tasks
accordingly.
Addressing the comments about MLO development cycles, I find MLO
to be a very powerful tool that lets me dump all sorts of tasks
into it, and develop very intelligent views that show me what I
should be working on at the current time and day and at my current
location. I have made many suggestions over the years and many of
them have been implemented and many have not. I believe that the
developers do a reasonable and fair job of accepting the
suggestions that add value to lots of users and ignoring the
suggestions that would mostly benefit only me.
On 5/17/2021 06:08, Stéph wrote:
I guess the intention was to make the MLO file open to other apps
by structuring it with xml. I used to think about learning xml so
that I could write my own tools for working with the MLO data - no
time for that, though.
The rate and direction of development does cause a few
frustrations (but then again, so do companies with huge funds
and development resources, like Microsoft), but what MLO does
well, it does really well. There are competitors out there, but
they all have limitations and none provide the level of
customisation of the outline, tags and metadata or the filter
and search functions quite as well. With those functions, I've
been able to compensate for many other limitations. Many of the
competitors use a crippling subscription model, too.
I haven’t been a MLO app user for such a long time as
you, but it didn’t take me much time to start
suspecting what you are confirming here. It seems the
frequency with which new MLO versions/upgrades are
released is super low. I started considering to move
to another app, ideally a bit more visual. All that
said, I have to admit I haven’t found a perfect
alternative app yet.
I bet they don't even pay you for all this work you do,
but thank you for sharing it with us.
I bought MyLifeOrganized before 2.0, I guess it
didn't even have a version number. Checking back the
past few years I was shocked that they have improved
absolutely nothing that would benefit me. I bought 5.0
because I thought hey it would have all the things
fixed that make it too slow to be reasonable, but it
is all the same problems still. I am sad every time I
hear good suggestions because I know they will be
completely ignored even 10 years later. I am very
disappointed in that aspect, even though the original
idea has yet to be even attempted by any capable
competitor.
The best way they could have used their initial
million or whatever they got from us making them
popular could have been to integrate an API and then
continue building their ideas on top of that. By API I
mean giving my own applications ability to navigate
and manipulate the tree of tasks and properties. Then
most every idea I've heard could have been solved
probably not by them but by people who want the
feature enough. My idea was that you could add hooks
and script things like populating a new task or set of
tasks based on my own preferences.
On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 1:14:15 PM
UTC-6 Dwight wrote:
I had a similar problem. Then I came up with
icons that clearly indicated each workspace and
attached them to the relevant views, then locked
and pinned the workspaces, giving me a large but
manageable collection of icons that I can take in
at a glance.
-Dwight
On 5/14/2021 17:09, Joel wrote:
Yeah ditto. I routinely
have EXACTLY as many tabs as will fit and still
kinda see the tab names. Iow, I'm constrained.
A little hamburger menu that drops open with
all the tab names (clickable) would be great.
A field to filter-as-you-type the tab names list
would be excellent.
Totally
agree with your recommendation
Stéphane. Hey question, how do I
submit an enhancement/feature request?
Is just this thread or there is a
different process / channel?
I don't know of a way to get a list of
workspaces, so I think this might be a
good feature request. Even better if the
list was filterable by typing part of the
workspace name.
One key combination which might work
better for you than using the mouse: As
with browsers and tabbed apps like MS
Excel, you can use Ctrl+PgUp and
Ctrl+PgDown to scroll quickly through
your list of workspace tabs. The only
problem is that it doesn't make the
names of the workspaces visible
anywhere.
Stéphane
one edit: by "list" I mean a drop-down
list, so you click it a see a list of
all the opened workspaces, that way
you don't have to scroll horizontally
to select/set the focus on the
workspace you want to go...
El miércoles, 12 de
mayo de 2021 a la(s) 09:10:45
UTC-3, Patricio Carranza escribió:
hi All,
I found pretty helpful to
have several workspaces opened
where on each of them I have a
parent task zoom in.
I'm getting more workspaces
opened that the number of
workspace than can be visible,
so I end up scrolling
horizontally with the arrows in
the workspace tab, is there a
way to get a list of the opened
workspaces tabs similar to a web
browser (like Chrome)?
I think it would be really
helpful.
Patricio.
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